pre·po·ten·cy (pr -p t n-s)n. 1. The condition of being greater in power, influence, or force than another or others; predominance. 2. Genetics The ability of one parent, variety, or strain to transmit individual traits to an offspring, apparently to the exclusion of the other parent, variety, or strain. |
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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| Noun | 1. | prepotency - the state of being predominant over others ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, dominance, control - the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her" |
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