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
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
In only one genus, Cannabis, did the leaves sink in the evening, and Kraus attributes this movement to the prepotency of their epinastic growth.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Charles Darwin
Can you doubt, after duly considering the facts of prepotency on the one hand and those of Jordan's physiological varieties on the other, that cross-infertility does arise before or during the specific differentiation?
From Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol 3 of 3) Post-Darwinian Questions: Isolation and Physiological Selection by George John Romanes
The chromosomes transmit the physical bases of heredity from one generation to the next, and the heritages from the two parents are equal except in cases of prepotency.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley
