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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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The truth of the principle of prepotency comes out more clearly when certain races are crossed.
When we consider latent characters, the explanation of this form of prepotency will be obvious.
It is therefore not surprising that every one hitherto has been baffled in drawing up general rules on the subject of prepotency.
He is the world's best example of prepotency, since he alone founded the Morgan breed.
I suppose you will answer that the European forms are prepotent, but this is riding prepotency to death.
The Cleveland Bay's accomplishments and their prepotency prompted their use as foundation stock or improvement sires for other breeds.

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