prepotency

[ pree-poht-n-see ]

/ priˈpoʊt n si /

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

Origin of prepotency

1640–50 for general sense “predominance”; < Latin praepotentia. See prepotent, -ency

It is in this power of prepotency that one of the chief benefits from the use of a pure bred sire or dam arises.

The Pig |Sanders Spencer
In the two previous chapters, when discussing reversion and prepotency, I was necessarily led to give many facts on crossing.

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) |Charles Darwin
But this epoch of Ghibelline prepotency in Tuscany was brief.

The Story of Siena and San Gimignano |Edmund G. Gardner
Sturm, prepotency of transmission of characters in sheep and cattle, ii.

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) |Charles Darwin

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

On the Genesis of Species |St. George Mivart

prepotency

/ (prɪˈpəʊtənsɪ) /

the state or condition of being prepotent

genetics the ability of one parent to transmit more characteristics to its offspring than the other parent

botany the ability of pollen from one source to bring about fertilization more readily than that from other sources