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

Cabbage. affected by pollen of purple bastard. prepotency of other pollen.

From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Darwin, Charles

Thirdly, prepotency of transmission, which may be confined to one sex, or be common to both sexes of the prepotent form.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles

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