Mar 20, 2019
What he dwelt on, at length, was the mounting evidence against anything like a Mendelian view of dominance as something an inherited character possesses independently of its developmental context. The effect of the same bit of chromosome on a body can be different depending on the hereditary background and the wider environmental conditions. The manifest character can be dominant, or recessive, or neither.
Gregory Radick, Beyond the Mendel-Fischer Controversy