What is the concept of 'blended inheritance'?

.. which Darwin himself believed to be true?

And what are some examples that appear to demonstrate the blending of inherited features?

Would a human be right.. because we may inherit certain characteristics from each parent (so a blend of them together), or no because that would require a mix of let's say hair coulour- so if mom has brown, dad has blonde - we'd have brown and blonde hair?

What is the concept of 'blended inheritance'?

Blended inheritance meant that crossing two different forms of a trait would produce an intermediate (as in incomplete dominance). So when Darwin crossed tall peas with short peas he expected medium peas ... but he got all tall because tall was dominant.

Ones that appear to demonstrate blending are:

a. red x white snapdragons --%26gt; pink snapdragons

b. black x white mice --%26gt; gray mice

c. long x round watermelons --%26gt; oval watermelons

Note that incomplete dominance isn't really the result of blending. If you cross a pink with a pink, you get 1 red: 2 pink: 1 white. If the genes or factors actually blended, then pink x pink would give all pink.