A Danish study correlating the weights of 540 adopted children with various adoptive and biological relatives found ____.
A) a higher correlation with biological relatives than adoptive relatives
B) a higher correlation with adoptive siblings than with biological siblings
C) the same correlation with biological relatives and adoptive relatives
D) a higher correlation with biological relatives during childhood but a higher correlation with adoptive relatives in adulthood

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The study found a higher correlation between the weights of the adopted children and their biological relatives than with their adoptive relatives, indicating that genetics had a stronger influence on weight than the environment provided by the adoptive family.

A Danish Study Correlating the Weights of 540 Adopted Children