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blending inheritance

The definition of blending inheritance is the combining of features or qualities of both parents in their children.

(noun)

An example of blending inheritance is the labradoodle breed of dog from the mating of a labrador and a poodle.

See blending inheritance in Webster's New World College Dictionary

the blending of characteristics of the parents in the offspring, as in a pink flower that results from the mating of a red flower with a white one

See blending inheritance in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
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.

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