Incomplete dominance

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Food Biotechnology

A condition where a heterozygous offspring has a phenotype that is distinctly different from, and intermediate to, the parental phenotypes. See Heterozygote, Phenotype.

Susan Allender-Hagedorn and Charles Hagedorn — An Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Annotated Dictionary

A gene action in which heterozygotes have a phenotype that is different from either homozygote, and is usually intermediate between them.

UN Food and Agriculture Organization — Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture