dominant trait

1. In genetics , a trait that will appear in the offspring if one of the parents contributes it. ( Compare recessive trait .)

Notes

In humans, dark hair is a dominant trait; if one parent contributes a gene for dark hair and the other contributes a gene for light hair, the child will have dark hair.

Example Sentences

Only a few retain a degree of overt sexuality, but it is not a dominant trait.

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He'd never run up against many stresses that brought his dominant trait to the fore.

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"She has never been without that divine reason which was her dominant trait," wrote her friend.

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If Faustus is to be labelled according to his dominant trait, then let us describe him as the embodiment of sense-gratification.

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But it would be incorrect to assume, therefore, that cosmopolitanism is a dominant trait.

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His dominant trait was to take all things into earnest consideration.

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