prepotency
Example Sentences
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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
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 Charles Darwin
It is in this power of prepotency that one of the chief benefits from the use of a pure bred sire or dam arises.
From The Pig Breeding, Rearing, and Marketing by Sanders Spencer
Beta vulgaris. measurements. crossed not exceeded by self-fertilised. prepotency of other pollen.
From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin
Thirdly, prepotency of transmission, which may be confined to one sex, or be common to both sexes of the prepotent form.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Charles Darwin
