unit character

a characteristic, usually controlled by a single gene, that is transmitted as a unit in heredity.

Origin of unit character

First recorded in 1905–10

Despite the obscuration of imperfect dominance, polydactylism in poultry proves itself to be a unit-character that segregates.

Inheritance of Characteristics in Domestic Fowl |Charles Benedict Davenport
The factor for this or that unit-character is either present in the gamete or it is not present.

Mendelism |Reginald Crundall Punnett
Tallness in the pea is a unit-character, and the gametes in which it is represented are said to contain the factor for tallness.

Mendelism |Reginald Crundall Punnett
The inheritance of eye color serves as a paradigm of the method of inheritance of any unit-character.

Introduction to the Science of Sociology |Robert E. Park

First of all, we find useful the principle of the unit-character.

Introduction to the Science of Sociology |Robert E. Park

unit character

genetics a character inherited as a single unit and dependent on a single gene