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
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 Charles Darwin
In artificial conditions, this in-breeding often results in the development of what is called prepotency.
From Herbert Spencer by J. Arthur (John Arthur) Thomson
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 Charles Darwin
Can you doubt, after duly considering the facts of prepotency on the one hand and those of Jordan's physiological varieties on the other, that cross-infertility does arise before or during the specific differentiation?
From Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol 3 of 3) Post-Darwinian Questions: Isolation and Physiological Selection by George John Romanes
