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What does prepotency mean?

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Noun
  1. The quality or condition of being prepotent; predominance.
  2. (biology) The capacity, on the part of one of the parents, as compared with the other, to transmit more than his or her own share of characteristics to their offspring.
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When we consider latent characters, the explanation of this form of prepotency will be obvious.
I suppose you will answer that the European forms are prepotent, but this is riding prepotency to death.
The truth of the principle of prepotency comes out more clearly when certain races are crossed.
An adjunction of characteristics, moral prepotency of his father, physical likeness to his mother.
The Cleveland Bay's accomplishments and their prepotency prompted their use as foundation stock or improvement sires for other breeds.
The law of prepotency comes into action when species are crossed, as with races and individuals.

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