blending inheritance

blend·ing inheritance   (blěn'dĭng) n.   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.

Main Entry: blend·ing inheritance
Pronunciation: 'blend-i[ng]-
Function: noun
: the expression in offspring of phenotypic characters (as pink flowercolor from red and white parental plants) intermediate between those of the parents; also : inheritance in a now discarded theory in which the genetic material of offspring was held tobe a uniform blend of that of the parents —compare PARTICULATE INHERITANCE, QUANTITATIVE INHERITANCE