incomplete dominance
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In incomplete dominance, the offspring express a heterozygous phenotype that is intermediate between one parent’s homozygous dominant trait and the other parent’s homozygous recessive trait.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
In humans, incomplete dominance occurs with one of the genes for hair texture.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Patterns of inheritance in humans include autosomal dominance and recessiveness, X-linked dominance and recessiveness, incomplete dominance, codominance, and lethality.
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Although all diploid individuals have two alleles for every gene, allele pairs may interact to create several types of inheritance patterns, including incomplete dominance and codominance.
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This pattern of inheritance is described as incomplete dominance, meaning that one of the alleles appears in the phenotype in the heterozygote, but not to the exclusion of the other, which can also be seen.
From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013
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