Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to two alleles of a gene that are both fully expressed in a heterozygote.
- adjective Being one of two or more of the most common or important species in an ecological community and influencing the presence and type of other species in the community.
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- adjective genetics Describing two or more
alleles that are equallydominant .
Etymologies
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Examples
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At the highest elevations, pickleweed becomes codominant with shoregrass.
Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve, California 2008
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Bristlecone and Engelmann spruce were codominant in the stand, with limber pine an associate.
Cutting Down the Oldest Living Tree in the World « Climate Audit 2006
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Laterally it graded "abruptly" into the typical cubalpine forest of the Snake Range in which spruce and limber pine were codominant and bristlecone was conspicuously absent.
Cutting Down the Oldest Living Tree in the World « Climate Audit 2006
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It is also a codominant in several other major forest types including: Koa/Mamane (Sophora chrysophylla) Montane Dry Forest and Koa/Ohia/A'e (Sapindus soponaria) Forest
Chapter 8 1996
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Grass carp and rice become codominant factors in the system.
Chapter 6 1995
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IL is also a codominant in several other major forest types including: Koa/Mamane (Sophora chrysophylla) Montane Dry Forest and Koa/Ohia/A'e (Sapindus soponaria) Forest
Chapter 2 1990
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How are codominant alleles and imcompletely dominant alleles similar
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According to Mendel, what kind of genes "disappear" in F1 pea plants? sex-linked dominant recessive codominant lethal
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"Combining high hardwood densities with precommercial thinning of Douglas-fir creates a codominant stand structure with conifers and hardwoods occupying the same canopy layer.
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