prepotency
the ability of one parent to impress its hereditary characters on its progeny because it possesses more homozygous, dominant, or epistatic genes.
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How to use prepotency in a sentence
This has also been enforced by statements as to the prepotency of certain pollen of identical species, but of distinct races.
On the Genesis of Species | St. George MivartThere is no factor in breeding of more importance than prepotency, and none which is more difficult to estimate.
The Popular Science Monthly, June, 1900 | VariousWe have now to consider the bearing of what is called "prepotency" on the theory of physiological selection.
Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol 3 of 3) | George John RomanesThus, we necessarily select the only trait really worth while; that is prepotency or the ability to beget desirable qualities.
The Dollar Hen | Milo M. HastingsBut this epoch of Ghibelline prepotency in Tuscany was brief.
The Story of Siena and San Gimignano | Edmund G. Gardner
British Dictionary definitions for prepotency
/ (prɪˈpəʊtənsɪ) /
the state or condition of being prepotent
genetics the ability of one parent to transmit more characteristics to its offspring than the other parent
botany the ability of pollen from one source to bring about fertilization more readily than that from other sources
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