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prepotency [prɪˈpəʊtənsɪ] n 1. the state or condition of being prepotent 2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Genetics) Genetics the ability of one parent to transmit more characteristics to its offspring than the other parent 3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Botany the ability of pollen from one source to bring about fertilization more readily than that from other sources prepotency the capacity of one parent to impose its hereditary characteristics on offspring by virtue of its possessing a larger number of homozygous, dominant genes than the other parent. — prepotent, adj. See also: Heredity
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These several remarks are apparently applicable to animals; but the subject is here excessively complicated, partly owing to the existence of secondary sexual characters; but more especially owing to prepotency in transmitting likeness running more strongly in one sex than in the other, both when one species is crossed with another, and when one variety is crossed with another variety. |
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