dominance
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6.8
- noun
- /ˈdɑːmɪnəns/
- Specialized
:
dominancia
- The dominance of the brown fur allele over the white fur allele determines the coat color of the mice.
- trait dominance
- dominance profile
Examples
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In genetics, when one allele shows greater influence than another, it is said to exhibit dominance.
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The study examined how allele dominance affects the inheritance of traits in the offspring.
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What then happened is a very rapid shift towards dominance by strain three.
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It's as if two entirely different strains of blood were not only present... but fighting it out for dominance.
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Dominance profiles can help coaches anticipate how students will respond in different sports situations.
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Look... Charlie, you said that... there's a fight between the two strains for dominance.
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The findings confirmed the dominance of monologic TLIs across lessons, which typically closed down opportunities for interactions between teachers and learners.
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If there is a brain asymmetry or a lack of dominant lateralization (mixed dominance), academic progress may become arrested.
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The data related to dominance and speech disfluency frequency in bilingual persons who stutter have been inconsistent across the literature.
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In summary, the qualitative and quantitative analyses confirmed the dominance of monologic interactions across lessons.
Academic text (2015)
Antonyms
- Specialized
A version of a gene that only affects traits when two identical copies are present
How Dominant
- Specialized
1
6.8
- Specialized
- Specialized
- Specialized
7
6.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dominance comes from the old Latin word dominus, meaning 'master' or 'lord'. In genetics a 'dominant' gene acts like the 'master' and shows its trait while the other does not, so dominance means one gene controls what we see.