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

But it does not follow from this that in each particular case certain characters will reappear: for instance, this will not occur when a race is crossed with another endowed with prepotency of transmission.

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

Different plants, even of the same ancestry, vary greatly in prepotency or in the relative dominance of the influence they have over descendants raised from seed produced by them.

From Tomato Culture: A Practical Treatise on the Tomato by Tracy, W. W. (William Warner)

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 Darwin, Charles

This has also been enforced by statements as to the prepotency of certain pollen of identical species, but of distinct races.

From On the Genesis of Species by Mivart, St. George