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Dominance: The property of one of a pair of alleles that suppresses the expression of the other member of the pair in heterozygotes.

Codominance: A type of inheritance in which heterozygotes fully express both alleles.

Incomplete Dominance: A type of inheritance in which the heterozygote has a phenotype intermediate to those of the homozygous parents.

Overdominance: Selection favoring heterozygotes

Dominance Hierarchy: A social structure among a group of animals in which one is dominant and the others have subordinate nonbreeding positions.

Complete Dominance: The type of inheritance in which both heterozygotes and dominant homozygotes have the same phenotype.

Pwned: To 'pwn' is to 'own.' A slang term that implies dominance over, or humiliation of another player. The term is used for mockery, and is essentially used the same way as the term 'owned' from . . . View Full Definition

Teabagging: A display of dominance performed during online multiplayer games. The victorious player will straddle the corpse of the losing player, and use the 'crouch' function to squat over the head of . . . View Full Definition

Evenness: The component of diversity accounting for the degree to which all species are equal in abundance, as opposed to strong dominance by one or a few species

Angiosperms: Flowering plants. First appearing at least 110 million years ago from an unknown gymnosperm ancestor, flowering planbts have risen to dominance in most of the worlds floras. The male gametop . . . View Full Definition