prepotency
English
noun
Definitions
- The quality or condition of being prepotent; predominance.
- (biology) The capacity, on the part of one of the parents, as compared with the other, to transmit more than his or her own share of characteristics to their offspring.
Etymology
Prefix from English potency.
Origin
English
potency
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Cognates and derived terms
- biopotency English
- bipotency English
- equipotency English
- immunopotency English
- multipotency English
- oligopotency English
- potency English
- subpotency English
- superpotency English
- unipotency English
- potentia Latin