dominance
/ˈdɑmɪnəns/ noun C1- The state of being dominant; of prime importance; supremacy.
- Being in a position of power, authority or ascendancy over others.
- A feeling of power and capacity to act or control another.
- The superior development of or preference for one side of the body or one of a pair of organs; such as being right-handed.
- of an allele, the degree to which it expresses its phenotype when heterozygous, such as whether it is dominant or recessive.
Plural dominances
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