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prepotency

/pree-poht-n-see/US // priˈpoʊt n si //UK // (prɪˈpəʊtənsɪ) //

预产期,预付能力,预增量,预付费用

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Genetics.

    • : the ability of one parent to impress its hereditary characters on its progeny because it possesses more homozygous, dominant, or epistatic genes.

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Examples

  • This has also been enforced by statements as to the prepotency of certain pollen of identical species, but of distinct races.

  • There is no factor in breeding of more importance than prepotency, and none which is more difficult to estimate.

  • We have now to consider the bearing of what is called "prepotency" on the theory of physiological selection.

  • Thus, we necessarily select the only trait really worth while; that is prepotency or the ability to beget desirable qualities.

  • But this epoch of Ghibelline prepotency in Tuscany was brief.

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