Question

Which inheritance pattern results when parents with pure traits are crossed and the resulting offspring have traits that appear to be a blend of the parents' traits?

Answer 1

Answer:

The inheritance pattern that results from blending the traits of pure parents with different alleles is incomplete dominance.

Explanation:

Incomplete dominance is a pattern of inheritance that obviates dominant and recessive traits, such that the offspring express a phenotypic trait that is a mixture of the parental phenotypes.

In this type of non-Mendelian inheritance two pure parents, with different phenotypes for the same trait, have heterozygous descendants with a phenotype that contains the blend of both characteristics.

An example of incomplete dominance is the crossing of white and red flowers where the descendants show as phenotype pink flowers.