Skip to main content
codominant

codominant

8.1
Two traits or species that are equally important and both clearly shown
  • adjective
  • /ˌkoʊˈdɒmɪnənt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : codominante
  • In fact, it transmitted in families like a Mendelian trait and it transmitted as an autosomal codominant trait.
  • mutually codominant
  • codominant solutions

Examples

  • When two traits are codominant, such as blood types A and B, both can be fully expressed in the offspring.

  • If one solution does not dominate the other, the solutions are said to be mutually codominant.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Note: Solutions A and C are mutually codominant.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Although solutions B and C are mutually codominant, solution B is not included in the Pareto optimal frontier because it is dominated by solution A.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Solutions A and C are mutually codominant if improvement with respect to one criterion corresponds to worse performance for another criterion.

    Academic text (2011)
  • In this plant species, both purple and white flowers are codominant, resulting in offspring with both colors.

  • During the experiment, researchers observed that the codominant alleles led to a distinct pattern of phenotype expression.

Synonyms

coequal
vscodominant
2 7.0

Having the same rank, power, and rights as another person or group

is about equal influence in traits or species that are both fully expressed

How Dominant

predominant
20 4.8
dominant
  • Specialized
12 6.0
codominant
  • Specialized
8.1
recessive
  • Specialized
7 6.7

Surface Forms

codominant positive

Morphology

codominant = dominant (transparent) = co + dominant

This sense is formed by prefixing 'co-' to 'dominant' to indicate jointly or equally dominant influence, a transparent morphological process.

Etymology

Codominant comes from co- meaning 'together' (as in cooperate) and dominant meaning 'having power' (as in dominate). So when traits or species are codominant, they share influence equally and both can be clearly seen.