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Prepotency   Listen
noun
Prepotency  n.  
1.
The quality or condition of being prepotent; predominance. (Obs.)
2.
(Biol.) 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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... by Williams Haynes. This is a companion volume to PRACTICAL DOG KEEPING, described below. It goes at length into the fundamental questions of breeding, such as selection of types on both sides, the perpetuation of desirable, and the elimination of undesirable qualities, the value of prepotency in building up a desired ...
— Taxidermy • Leon Luther Pray


Words linked to "Prepotency" :   predominance, control, predomination, ascendence, dominance


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