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prepotency: Meaning and Definition of

pre•po•ten•cy

Pronunciation: (prē-pōt'n-sē), [key]
— n. Genetics.
  1. the ability of one parent to impress its hereditary characters on its progeny because it possesses more homozygous, dominant, or epistatic genes.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
See also:
preposterous prepotent
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