Codominant

//kəʊˈdɒmɪnənt// adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A species or organism that jointly dominates a region.

    "Landowners cannot afford to cut submerchantable trees, yet many hesitate to cut merchantable dominants and codominants at the risk of downgrading the residual stand."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Equally dominant. not-comparable

    "codominant species in a region"

  2. 2
    Describing two or more alleles that are equally dominant. not-comparable

    "A and B are ‘co-dominant’ versions of the same gene, O being the ‘recessive’ form of it."

Example

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"A and B are ‘co-dominant’ versions of the same gene, O being the ‘recessive’ form of it."

Etymology

From co- + dominant.

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