unit character

How to use unit character in a sentence

• Tallness in the pea is a unit-character, and the gametes in which it is represented are said to contain the factor for tallness.

  Mendelism | Reginald Crundall Punnett

• It will, for instance, require very strong evidence to establish feeble-mindedness as a unit character.

  Applied Eugenics | Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson

• The inheritance of eye color serves as a paradigm of the method of inheritance of any unit-character.

  Introduction to the Science of Sociology | Robert E. Park

• How can one speak of a unit character, when the "unit" has an infinite number of values?

  Applied Eugenics | Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson

• Despite the obscuration of imperfect dominance, polydactylism in poultry proves itself to be a unit-character that segregates.

  Inheritance of Characteristics in Domestic Fowl | Charles Benedict Davenport