The discarded theory of blending inheritance most closely resembles incomplete dominance.
<h3>What is blending inheritance?</h3>
An antiquated biological notion from the 19th century is the concept of blending inheritance.
According to the hypothesis, children inherit any trait by averaging the values of their parents for that trait.
According to the theory of blended inheritance, an offspring combines the values of both parents for a given attribute.
As opposed to blended inheritance, particulate inheritance states that a child inherits individual units or genes from each parent.
Offspring thus combines the traits of both parents.
Incomplete dominance is the term used to describe phenotypic "blending" of two features, which implies that neither trait is truly dominant over the other.
The manifestation of phenotypic traits that are intermediate between those of the parents, such as pink flower color from red and white parents.
Inheritance was a now-discredited hypothesis that claimed children's genetic make-up was a pure admixture of their parents'.
For example, insects use wings to fly like bats and birds, but the wing structure and embryonic origin is completely different. <u>These are called analogous structures</u>
