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Dominance

(Science: genetics) The full phenotypic expression of a gene in both heterozygotes and homozygotes.

Origin: L. Dominari = to govern The state that exists when one person or group has power over another; her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her.Superior development of one side of the body.A genetic term used to describe how the characteristics expressed by one allele (the dominant one) masks the characteristics expressed by another, known as the recessive Allele.