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dominant

[adjective]

Designating a genetic trait that is expressed when an organism has inherited two different variations (alleles) of a gene for that specific trait; prevailing.


Appears in modules:

  • Cellular Organelles I Endosymbiosis and membrane-bound organelles
  • Gene Expression Enzymes and hereditary conditions
  • History of Earth's Atmosphere II The rise of atmospheric oxygen
  • Independent Assortment Mendel's testcrosses and Punnett squares
  • Inheritance Mendel's experiments and laws
  • Ocean Currents Mapping and explaining the ocean’s gyres
  • Ploidy and Meiosis The basis for recombination
  • Population Genetics Hardy-Weinberg and genetic drift
  • Reproduction Asexual to sexual
  • The Nitrogen Cycle Of microbes and men
  • Weather, Fronts, and Forecasts From observations to predictive models
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