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

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)

Another case showing the strong prepotency of the Manx cat.

From Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured by Weir, Harrison

In artificial conditions, this in-breeding often results in the development of what is called prepotency.

From Herbert Spencer by Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)

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