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What is incomplete dominance?

What is incomplete dominance? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (genetics) The situation where the phenotype of the heterozygous phenotype is distinct from and often intermediate to the phenotypes of the homozygous phenotypes.
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Estimates of genetic parameters following Hayman's method showed a high value of additive gene effects for callus growth, which were recognized as incomplete dominance and negative action.
Some alleles do not have complete dominance and instead have incomplete dominance by expressing an intermediate phenotype, or codominance by expressing both alleles at once.
In the control of spike length inheritance, incomplete dominance and additive effects were observed.
Observers typically described dominance in these locations as being more immediate and less ambiguous, with less incidence of incomplete dominance.
This is just one of many examples of incomplete dominance, in which the hybrid does not resemble either pure-breeding parent.
In something called incomplete dominance, both the dominant and recessive alleles are expressed in the offspring.

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