prepotency

The hierarchy is not arranged from least noble to most noble, but instead is a hierarchy of prepotency.

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.

In artificial conditions, this in-breeding often results in the development of what is called prepotency.

But if there were no prepotency, the two species would blend; and this Kerner supposes must actually take place wherever two previously separated species, thus physiologically circumstanced, happen to be brought together.

Another case showing the strong prepotency of the Manx cat.