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inbreeding
the mating of closely related individuals, as cousins, sire-daughter, brother-sister, or self-fertilized plants, which tends to increase the number of individuals that are homozygous for a trait and therefore increases the appearance of recessive traits. -
incomplete dominance
the appearance in a heterozygote of a trait that is intermediate between either of the trait's homozygous phenotypes. -
incross
a mating between organisms that are both homozygous for the same allele. -
prepotency
the ability of one parent to impress its hereditary characters on its progeny because it possesses more homozygous, dominant, or epistatic genes. -
zygosity
the characterization of an individual's hereditary traits in terms of gene pairing in the zygote from which it developed. Compare homozygous, heterozygous.