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

Moral prepotency of and physical likeness to his father.

From A Zola Dictionary; the Characters of the Rougon-Macquart Novels of Emile Zola; by Patterson, J. G

Wilson, Dr., prepotency of the Manx over the common cat, ii.

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

It is in this power of prepotency that one of the chief benefits from the use of a pure bred sire or dam arises.

From The Pig Breeding, Rearing, and Marketing by Spencer, Sanders