A chestnut-colored (red-colored)horse is mated with a cremello (cream-colored)horse.Over a 10-year period,all of their offspring are palominos (gold-colored).This pattern of inheritance is best explained by

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Incomplete dominance occurs when the heterozygous phenotype is intermediate between the two homozygous phenotypes. In this case, the palomino offspring have a phenotype that is intermediate between the chestnut-colored and cremello-colored parents. Therefore, the pattern of inheritance is best explained by incomplete dominance.

A Chestnut-Colored (Red-Colored)horse Is Mated with a Cremello (Cream-Colored)horse