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dominant 1. Genetics a. (of an allele) producing the same phenotype in the organism irrespective of whether the allele of the same gene is identical or dissimilar b. (of a character) controlled by such a gene 2. Music of or relating to the fifth degree of a scale 3. Ecology (of a plant or animal species within a community) more prevalent than any other species and determining the appearance and composition of the community 4. Genetics a. a dominant allele or character b. an organism having such an allele or character 5. Music a. the fifth degree of a scale and the second in importance after the tonic b. a key or chord based on this 6. Ecology a dominant plant or animal in a community How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| AS WE DESCENDED THE BROAD STAIRCASE WHICH led to the main avenue of Phutra I caught my first sight of the dominant race of the inner world. Sillerton Jackson and his sister Sophy (who went wherever her brother told her to), were some of the most fashionable and yet most irreproachable of the dominant "young married" set; the Lawrence Leffertses, Mrs. Maybe there was a murmur in the village streets, a novel and dominant topic in the public-houses, and here and there a messenger, or even an eye-witness of the later occurrences, caused a whirl of excitement, a shouting, and a running to and fro; but for the most part the daily routine of working, eating, drinking, sleeping, went on as it had done for count- less years--as though no planet Mars existed in the sky. |
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