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
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 Harrison Weir
The brief mention of prepotency is common to them both.
From The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 by Sir Francis Darwin
And when we remember on how delicate a balance of physiological conditions complete correspondency of pollen to ovules depends, we may be prepared to expect that the phenomenon of prepotency is not of uncommon occurrence.
From Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol 3 of 3) Post-Darwinian Questions: Isolation and Physiological Selection by George John Romanes
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 Charles Darwin
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