blending inheritance

This notion—blending inheritance—was already familiar to most biologists: it was a restatement of Aristotle’s theory of mixing between male and female characters.

The existence of dominant and recessive alleles for a trait contradicted nineteenth-century theories of blending inheritance: the hybrids that Mendel had generated did not possess intermediate features.

Blending Inheritance, inheritance in which the characters of the parents seem to blend in the offspring.

It does not fall wholly into the class of blending inheritance, for it does segregate to a considerable extent, yet some of the factors may show blending.