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

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 ?Malley, Austin

The prepotency of the sire is apparent at the first glance, and to so marked an extent that the illustration would pass muster anywhere as having been drawn from a full-blood buffalo.

From The Extermination of the American Bison by Hornaday, William Temple

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 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 Spencer, Sanders