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What does dominance mean?

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Noun
  1. The state of being dominant; of prime importance; supremacy.
  2. Being in a position of power, authority or ascendancy over others.
  3. (physiology) The superior development of or preference for one side of the body or one of a pair of organs; such as being right-handed.
  4. (biology) The property of a gene such that it suppresses the expression of its allele.
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Let me begin with the objection that uses the principle of dominance as a principle of utility comparison.
Also, the relative amounts of the different compounds of the mixture tend to be more even, which is reflected in lower dominance values.
The key difference between simple dominance and codominance is that in codominance the heterozygote exhibits a distinct phenotype.
The principle of dominance creates visual interest in a composition by drawing the viewer's eye to an important element in the composition.
The dominance of antilogy in the De coniuratione cannot be understood except against this classical background.
When most individuals in the group differ in size, stable dominance relationships generally yield transitive hierarchies consistent with size.

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