prepotency

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As Rockefeller’s oil prepotency waned, global production flourished; in a frantically developing industrialized world, oil reserves took on strategic importance.

From Slate • Nov. 22, 2013

In the same chapter I shall show that the rate at which a species or breed absorbs and obliterates another by repeated crosses, depends in chief part on prepotency in transmission.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles

Limnanthes douglasii. measurements. early flowering of crossed. seeds. highly self-fertile. prepotency of other pollen.

From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Darwin, Charles

Cabbage. affected by pollen of purple bastard. prepotency of other pollen.

From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Darwin, Charles

In the foregoing remarks on non-inheritance, crossed breeds are of course excluded, as their diversity mainly depends on the unequal development of characters derived from either parent, modified by the principles of reversion and prepotency.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles