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PRONUNCIATION OF OVERDOMINANCE

overdominance  [ˌəʊvəˈdɒmɪnəns] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OVERDOMINANCE

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Overdominance is a noun.
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WHAT DOES OVERDOMINANCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Overdominance

Overdominance is a condition in genetics where the phenotype of the heterozygote lies outside the phenotypical range of both homozygote parents. Overdominance can also be described as heterozygote advantage, wherein heterozygous individuals have a higher fitness than homozygous individuals. An example in humans is sickle cell anemia. This condition is determined by a single polymorphism. Possessors of the deleterious allele have lower life expectancy, with homozygotes rarely reaching 50 years of age. However, this allele also yields some resistance to malaria. Thus in regions where malaria exerts or has exerted a strong selective pressure, sickle cell anemia has been selected for its conferred partial resistance to the disease. While homozygotes will have either no protection from malaria or a dramatic propensity to sickle cell anemia, heterozygotes enjoy a partial resistance to both.

Definition of overdominance in the English dictionary

The definition of overdominance in the dictionary is excessive dominance.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OVERDOMINANCE


abstinence
ˈæbstɪnəns
appurtenance
əˈpɜːtɪnəns
chrominance
ˈkrəʊmɪnəns
codominance
kəʊˈdɒmɪnəns
countenance
ˈkaʊntɪnəns
dominance
ˈdɒmɪnəns
eminence
ˈɛmɪnəns
illuminance
ɪˈluːmɪnəns
imminence
ˈɪmɪnəns
incontinence
ɪnˈkɒntɪnəns
luminance
ˈluːmɪnəns
maintenance
ˈmeɪntɪnəns
ordinance
ˈɔːdɪnəns
pertinence
ˈpɜːtɪnəns
pre-eminence
prɪˈemɪnəns
predominance
prɪˈdɒmɪnəns
preheminence
prɪˈhemɪnəns
prominence
ˈprɒmɪnəns
provenance
ˈprɒvɪnəns
supereminence
ˌsuːpərˈɛmɪnəns

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OVERDOMINANCE

overdid
overdight
overdirect
overdiscount
overdiversity
overdo
overdo it
overdocument
overdoer
overdog
overdominant
overdone
overdosage
overdose
overdraft
overdraft facility
overdraft interest
overdraft limit
overdramatic
overdramatise

WORDS THAT END LIKE OVERDOMINANCE

advance
alternance
car maintenance
care and maintenance
clinical governance
corporate governance
dissonance
electron paramagnetic resonance
finance
governance
high-maintenance
magnetic resonance
nance
nuclear magnetic resonance
ordnance
ordonnance
penance
refinance
resonance
sonance
sustenance

Synonyms and antonyms of overdominance in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «overdominance» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OVERDOMINANCE

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Translator English - Chinese

超显性
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

overdominance
570 millions of speakers

English

overdominance
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

overdominance
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

سيادة مفرطة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сверхдоминирование
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sobredominância
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

overdominance
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

surdominance
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Overdominance
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Überdominanz
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

超優性
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

overdominance
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Overdominance
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

overdominance
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

overdominance
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Overdominance
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

overdominance
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sovradominanza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

overdominance
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

наддомінування
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

overdominance
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υπερεπικράτηση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

overdominance
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

overdominance
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

overdominance
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of overdominance

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERDOMINANCE»

The term «overdominance» is used very little and occupies the 159.841 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERDOMINANCE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about overdominance

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVERDOMINANCE»

Discover the use of overdominance in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to overdominance and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Genetics and Exploitation of Heterosis in Crops: An ...
Dominance and Overdominance J.F. Crow Genetics Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA The prevailing opinion regarding the importance of overdominance in crop yields, especially in maize, and population  ...
CIMMYT., 1997
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Genetics: A Conceptual Approach
Two types of selection (types 5 and 6) are special situations that lead to equilibrium, where there is no further change in allelic frequency. Type 5 selection is referred to as overdominance or heterozygote advantage. Here, the het- erozygote ...
Benjamin A. Pierce, 2008
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Population Genetics, Molecular Evolution, and the Neutral ...
Thus, excluding such extreme situations, we may conclude that, for large Nec, the approximation <r2d « l/{4iV^ (c + km)} is valid and useful to evaluate associative overdominance. It is quite interesting that essentially the same formula for ad ...
Motoo Kimura, 1995
4
Polyploid and Hybrid Genomics
Below, we explore current support for overdominance, drawing examples from across the plant and animal kingdoms with particular emphasis on single-locus heterosis in crops. Overdominance and Quantitative Genetics Unlike the ...
Z. Jeffrey Chen, James A. Birchler, 2013
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Introduction to Conservation Genetics
Computer simulations of small populations with many loci indicate that linkage disequilibrium between neutral loci and either deleterious alleles, or loci showing overdominance, slows fixation at neutral loci, but does not prevent eventual ...
Richard Frankham, Jonathan D. Ballou, David A. Briscoe, 2010
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Confucian Tradition and Global Education
Yet, while this dominance of English is today unavoidable, the world is now facing an additional challenge — the overdominance of English. By overdominance of English, I mean the danger of individual languages being self- estranged ...
William Theodore De Bary, 2007
7
Heterosis and Hybrid Rice Breeding
Sant S. Virmani. Overdominance has been demonstrated in several traits that are controlled by a single gene. Berger (1976) reviewed evidence for heterosis at the gene product level and gave a number of relatively clear-cut examples. One is ...
Sant S. Virmani, 1994
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Génétique quantitative et méthodes de sélection chez les ...
Overdominance Models with overdominance (with at least one //, < 0 ) are more complex because in the general situation there are five equilibrium values, since the equation for A/? is a f,fth degree polynomial in p. However, according to Hill ...
André Gallais, 2003
9
The Natural History of Inbreeding and Outbreeding: ...
Dominance versus Overdominance Both dominance and overdominance mechanisms predict that fitness should decline with inbreeding and homozygosity, but they have contrasting implications for how inbreeding depression should ...
Nancy Wilmsen Thornhill, 1993
10
Evolutionary Biology
OVERDOMINANCE My interest in the subject of overdominance began almost 50 years ago during a statistics course at North Carolina State University in the summer of 1946. The star attraction was R. A. Fisher, and dominance versus ...
Max K. Hecht, Ross J. MacIntyre, Michael T. Clegg, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OVERDOMINANCE»

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Distribution of HLA haplotypes across Japanese Archipelago …
The polymorphic nature of the HLA region is thought to have been shaped from balancing selection and maintained by overdominance effect, ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
2
Sterile males in a parasitoid wasp with complementary sex …
... the progeny of full siblings). Overdominance is the underlying mechanism [31], as no single allele at the csd gene is intrinsically deleterious. «BMC Blogs Network, May 15»
3
Scots should have pension age exemption as they die earlier, says …
... the chronic overdominance of the City of London, which has harmed the overall UK economy and left regions of England neglected”, it said. «Irish Times, Apr 15»
4
Genetic architecture and genomic patterns of gene flow between …
Overdominance (heterozygous genotypes favored over parental genotypes) and directional selection (one parental genotype is favored over ... «Nature.com, Mar 15»
5
Bat-Power Rules in Modern Cricket
But while it's clear where that line lies in Test cricket, where overdominance by the bat results in boring draws, there's no indication at all where ... «Wall Street Journal, Feb 15»
6
Letters: Meaningful KYC norms
The concept that "anything in excess is poison" portrays the prevailing overdominance of KYC implementation in the current banking ... «Business Standard, Dec 14»
7
Jolla plans to offer open-source Sailfish OS for free to device …
Because of the overdominance, vendors are exploring alternatives to Google's Android platform. Phone makers need something new and we ... «Economic Times, Sep 14»
8
The iPhone 5: It's funny (or is it?)
Just look at all the other companies and governments before them that have fallen after overdominance and corruption. You can be sure that if ... «CNET, Sep 12»
9
Case closed: blonde Melanesians understood
One could posit overdominance on a trait other than pigmentation, with the hair color being simply a correlated response. Finally, I want to note ... «Discover Magazine, May 12»
10
Tomato Gene Impacts Taste, Yield
... by our discovery, postulates that improved vigor stems from only a single gene, an effect called “superdominance” or “overdominance.”. «U.S. News & World Report, May 10»

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