Here's why:

* Incomplete dominance is a pattern of inheritance where the heterozygous phenotype is a blend or intermediate between the two homozygous phenotypes.

* Heterozygote refers to an individual with two different alleles for a particular gene.

Example:

Imagine a flower where the allele for red color (R) is incompletely dominant to the allele for white color (r).

* RR (homozygous dominant): Red flower

* rr (homozygous recessive): White flower

* Rr (heterozygous): Pink flower (intermediate between red and white)

In this case, the heterozygote (Rr) exhibits an intermediate phenotype (pink) that falls between the two homozygous phenotypes (red and white).