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Dominant Gene Adjective Powerful Successful Influential Noticeable People

word dominant
definition
adjective
Someone or something that is dominant is more powerful, successful, influential, or noticeable than other people or things.
...a change which would maintain his party's dominant position in Scotland.
She was a dominant figure in the French film industry.
A dominant gene is one that produces a particular characteristic, whether a person has only one of these genes from one parent, or two genes, one from each parent. Compare recessive .
Dimples are quite rare and caused by one dominant gene
cefr-level B2

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