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  • Incomplete Dominance: Understanding Hybrid Phenotypes in Genetics
    The term for the condition in which hybrid offspring exhibit a phenotype that is midway between dissimilar traits of parent organisms is incomplete dominance.

    Here's a breakdown:

    * Incomplete dominance is a pattern of inheritance where the heterozygote phenotype is a blend of the two homozygous phenotypes.

    * This is different from complete dominance, where one allele completely masks the expression of the other.

    A classic example is the flower color of snapdragons. A red snapdragon (RR) crossed with a white snapdragon (WW) will produce offspring with pink flowers (RW).

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