Definitions for quantitative inheritance
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
quan′titative inher′itance(n.)
the process in which the additive action of a group of genes results in a trait, as height or shape, showing continuous variability.
Category: Genetics
Origin of quantitative inheritance:
1925–30
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