incomplete dominance

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Definition of incomplete dominance in English English dictionary: The situation in which both alleles of a heterozygote influence the phenotype The phenotype is usually intermediate between the two homozygous phenotypes The situation in which a heterozygote shows a phenotype somewhere (but not exactly half-way) intermediate between the corresponding homozygote phenotypes (Exact intermediacy is no dominance ) See also dominance, codominance and recessivity; The condition that results when two different alleles together produce an effect intermediate between the effects of the same two genes in a homozygous condition; A condition where a heterozygous off- spring has a phenotype that is distinctly different from, and intermediate to, the parental phenotypes See Heterozygote, Phenotype; A heterozygous condition in which both alleles at a gene locus are partially expressed, often producing an intermediate phenotype

incomplete dominance