Underdominance

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Less than normal dominance uncountable

    "Hybrids display additive, dominant, and nonadditive (over- and underdominance) modes of inheritance for transcription regulation [8 –10 ]."

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"Hybrids display additive, dominant, and nonadditive (over- and underdominance) modes of inheritance for transcription regulation [8 –10 ]."

Etymology

From under- + dominance.

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