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单词 prepotency
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
pre•po•ten•cy  (prē pōt′n sē),USA pronunciation n. [Genetics.]
  1. Geneticsthe ability of one parent to impress its hereditary characters on its progeny because it possesses more homozygous, dominant, or epistatic genes.
  • Latin praepotentia. See prepotent, -ency
  • 1640–50 for general sense "predominance''

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
prepotency /prɪˈpəʊtənsɪ/ n
  1. the ability of one parent to transmit more characteristics to its offspring than the other parent
  2. the ability of pollen from one source to bring about fertilization more readily than that from other sources
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