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ßøŵ Ƭįęƨ Åŗē ĊőōĨ asked in Education & ReferenceWords & Wordplay · 8 years ago

What would be the best grammar in this situation?

Talking about Mendel's experiments, would the sentence go:

- Round peas are dominant OVER wrinkled, or

- Round peas are dominant TO wrinkled?

Update:

I have to use the word "dominant", because it's a key word in Mendel's Laws of Genetics.

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  • barbara v
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
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    Dominant is always OVER something or someone.

    Source(s): Many years teaching English
  • Terry
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    I would not use the word "dominant."

    Perhaps---preferred or superior, Round peas are very much preferred than wrinkled

    Round peas are superior to wrinkled .

  • Michael
    8 years ago

    I would say that this is a matter of preference. I think that OVER sounds better in this situation but someone else might say the opposite.

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