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The ability of one individual or strain to transmit its characters to offspring to a greater extent than the other parent individual or strain because of an accumulation of homozygous dominant genes.

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  • However, we do know that imperialist arrogance, self-sufficiency, and prepotency has grown.
  • The retired Democratic Army soldier wondered if Dhamjjalla felt a hint of that same prepotency when he woke each morning.
  • This has also been enforced by statements as to the prepotency of certain pollen of identical species, but of distinct races.
  • In all these cases we do not have abortions or monstrosities, but more or less harmonious forms often of great functional activity, endowed with marked viability and generative...
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