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- Dictionarydominant/ˈdɒmɪnənt/
adjective
- 1. having power and influence over others: "they are now in an even more dominant position in the market" Similar Opposite
noun
- 1. a dominant trait or gene: "this disorder is inherited as a dominant"
- 2. the fifth note of the diatonic scale of any key, or the key based on this, considered in relation to the key of the tonic.
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7 hours ago · Discourse often develops into binary oppositions that inform policy and create and sustain a dominant world position. Compared to the Global South, the United States is “developed” and “civilized,” while other nations are “underdeveloped” and “uncivilized.”Discourse analysis is not limited to military intervention.
5 days ago · People with two altered genes are missing whatever cell function is associated with the gene. Dominant traits occur when either half of the normal gene function is not enough, or when the change to a single copy causes new damaging effects to the cell that the normal gene does not.
2 days ago · A dominant-party system, or one-party dominant system, is a political occurrence in which a single political party continuously dominates election results over running opposition groups or parties.
2 days ago · Hegemonic masculinity is defined as a practice that legitimizes men's dominant position in society and justifies the subordination of the common male population and women, and other marginalized ways of being a man.
2 days ago · When organisms are heterozygous at a gene, often one allele is called dominant as its qualities dominate the phenotype of the organism, while the other allele is called recessive as its qualities recede and are not observed.
4 days ago · explain Mendel's experiment for the inheritance of one gene. 1. he crossed tall and dwarf pea plants to study the inheritance of one gene. 2. He collected the seeds produced as a result of this cross and grew them to generate plants of the first hybrid generation.
2 days ago · The contribution aims to define the background within which the text was born and published and, more generally, to relate the peculiar condition of this book to the more articulated framework of experiences, relations and ties that characterise the multifaceted figure of the Portuguese master.
