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

It is remarkable that the prepotency of one species over another in transmission is quite independent, as shown by G�rtner, of the greater or less facility with which the one fertilises the other.

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

When we consider latent characters, the explanation of this form of prepotency will be obvious.

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

It is therefore not surprising that every one hitherto has been baffled in drawing up general rules on the subject of prepotency.

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

Colin, prepotency of the ass over the horse, ii. 67-68; on cross-breeding, ii.

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