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blending inheritance
noun
Genetics.
- inheritance in which contrasting parental characters appear as a blend in the offspring.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of blending inheritance1
First recorded in 1920–25
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This notion—blending inheritance—was already familiar to most biologists: it was a restatement of Aristotle’s theory of mixing between male and female characters.
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The existence of dominant and recessive alleles for a trait contradicted nineteenth-century theories of blending inheritance: the hybrids that Mendel had generated did not possess intermediate features.
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Blending Inheritance, inheritance in which the characters of the parents seem to blend in the offspring.
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It does not fall wholly into the class of blending inheritance, for it does segregate to a considerable extent, yet some of the factors may show blending.
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