English Explanatory Dictionary

overdominance

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The case in which a heterozygote has a higher fitness or more extreme phenotype than either homozygote.
  2. Excessive dominance.

Word forms

overdominance overdominances

Etymology

From over- + dominance.

Related words

dominance
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