- Dominance (biology)
In the field of biology, dominance or dominant may refer to:
*Dominance (ethology)
*Dominance (genetics)
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Dominance — may refer to: Dominance (C++), an aspect of virtual inheritance in the C++ programming language Dominance (economics), in economics, the degree of inequality in market share distribution Strategic dominance, in game theory, when one strategy is… … Wikipedia
Dominance (genetics) — For other uses, see Dominance. A pedigree chart shows how genes are inherited. Dominance in genetics is a relationship between two variant forms (alleles) of a single gene, in which one allele masks the effect of the other in influencing some… … Wikipedia
Dominance hierarchy — For other uses, see Dominance. A dominance hierarchy (in humans: social hierarchy) is the organization of individuals in a group that occurs when competition for resources leads to aggression. Schjelderup Ebbe, who studied the often cited example … Wikipedia
Dominance (ethology) — For other uses, see Dominance. Dominance in the context of biology and anthropology is the state of having high social status relative to one or more other individuals, who react submissively to dominant individuals. This enables the dominant… … Wikipedia
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Trait (biology) — A trait is a distinct phenotypic character of an organism that may be inherited, environmentally determined or somewhere in between.Lawrence, Eleanor (2005) Henderson s Dictionary of Biology . Pearson, Prentice Hall. ISBN 0 13 127384 1] For… … Wikipedia
Social Dominance Theory — is a social psychological theory of group conflict which describes human society as consisting of oppressive group based hierarchical structures. According to the theory, individual people possess varying levels of preference for social dominance … Wikipedia
Social dominance orientation — (SDO), is a personality variable which predicts social and political attitudes. It is a widely applied Social Psychological scale. SDO is conceptualised as a measure of individual differences in levels of group based discrimination and… … Wikipedia
Evolution of dominance — The evolution of dominance concerns the evolution of genetic dominance. The central argument, that modifier genes act upon other genes to make them dominant or recessive, and that these are then themselves subject to natural selection was first… … Wikipedia
