| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| blending inheritance |
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| SYLLABICATION: | blend·ing inheritance |
| PRONUNCIATION: | bl n d ng |
| NOUN: | Genetics The inheritance pattern of a system involving incomplete dominance, whereby characters are inherited in heterozygous individuals that show the effects of both alleles. As a result the inherited characters in the offspring are intermediate between those of the parents.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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