Imagine that beak color in a finch species is controlled by a single gene. you mate a finch homozygous for orange (pigmented) beak with a finch homozygous for ivory (unpigmented) beak and get numerous offspring, all of which have a pale, ivory-orange beak. this pattern of color expression is most likely to be an example of

Codominance or incomplete dominance is the answer in this question. This pattern of color expression is most likely to be an example of incomplete dominance or codominance. Codominance is defined as a form of dominance wherein the alleles of a gene pair in a heterozygote are fully expressed. Incomplete dominance on the other hand is a form of intermediate inheritance in which one of the allele for a specific trait is incompletely expressed over its paired allele.