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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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Escudo I continues the old Hanoverian E-bloodline with his prepotency, and he was of tremendous importance for the modern jumper horse breed.
Prior to February 2000, there were three different and competing staff organizations that could claim prepotency in Korea.
He is the world's best example of prepotency, since he alone founded the Morgan breed.
Wilson, Dr., prepotency of the Manx over the common cat, ii.
The law of prepotency comes into action when species are crossed, as with races and individuals.
I suppose you will answer that the European forms are prepotent, but this is riding prepotency to death.

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