codominant
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See also: co-dominant
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codominant (not comparable)
- Equally dominant.
- codominant species in a region
- (genetics) Describing two or more alleles that are equally dominant.
- 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 137:
- A and B are ‘co-dominant’ versions of the same gene, O being the ‘recessive’ form of it.
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equally dominant
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Noun[edit]
codominant (plural codominants)
- A species or organism that jointly dominates a region.
- 1966, John R. Bassett, Thinning loblolly pine from above and below, New Orleans, La: Southern Forest Experiment Station:
- Landowners cannot afford to cut submerchantable trees, yet many hesitate to cut merchantable dominants and codominants at the risk of downgrading the residual stand.