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

It is therefore not surprising that every one hitherto has been baffled in drawing up general rules on the subject of prepotency.

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

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 Darwin, Francis, Sir

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