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quantitative inheritance

Quantitative inheritance is a genetic term which is defined as the combined result when many factors combine to result in a distinctive trait.

(noun)

An example of a result of quantitative inheritance is height.

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See quantitative inheritance in Webster's New World College Dictionary

Genetics the inheritance in offspring of distinctive characters, as stature in man, that are influenced by the combined activity of multiple factors and that are subject to modification by environment
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