Dominant

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1. Adjective

Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power.

2. Noun

The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.

3. Adjective

most frequent or common; "prevailing winds"
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4. Noun

an allele that produces the same phenotype whether its paired allele is identical or different
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5. Adjective

(of genes) producing the same phenotype whether its allele is identical or dissimilar
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