incomplete dominance
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.54 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
6
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The situation where the phenotype of the heterozygous phenotype is distinct from and often intermediate to the phenotypes of the homozygous phenotypes.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The snapdragon flower colour is either homozygous for red or white. When the red homozygous flower is paired with the white homozygous flower, the result yields a pink snapdragon flower; this is the result of incomplete dominance."