Saturday, January 2, 2016

When traits are inherited in an incomplete dominance pattern, what is true of the phenotype of the heterozygotes?

With incomplete dominance, a heterozygous individual shows a blend of the parents' two traits.  Neither allele (or gene) inherited completely dominates the other; instead, the two traits mix for a completely different phenotype in the offspring.  For example, in some flowers, a true-breeding (or homozygous) red-flowering plant crossed with a true-breeding white-flowering plant will create offspring with pink flowers.

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