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
Wilson, Mr., on prepotency of transmission in sheep, ii.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Charles Darwin
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
It tends to the segregation of species into subspecies, it makes it easier for new variations to establish themselves, it promotes prepotency, or what the breeders call "transmitting power," it fixes characters.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Robert Ezra Park
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 William Temple Hornaday
