(genetics). (1) (Of, or pertaining to) An allele or a gene that is expressed in an organism âs phenotype, masking the effect of the recessive allele or gene when present. (2) (Of, or pertaining to) An organism that expresses the dominant gene (or allele).
Triceratops was a species of herbivorous dinosaur. Triceratops lived during the Mesozoic Era, during the days of the late Cretaceous period. A large herbivorous dinosaur, Triceratops grazed on plants and relied on its horns and frilled head for defense, cutting away at plants with its sharp beak. were larger relatives of the Chasmosaurus. They appear in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, The Triceratops are shown very briefly, wading through a pond.
Protoceratops was discovered during the 1920s, in the Gobi desert, in Gansu, Inner Mongolia. Many skeletons were discovered by the American expedition. the type species, P. andrewsi, was formally described by Granger and Gregory in 1923.t is notably larger than P. andrewsi. In the 1920s, Roy Chapman Andrews discovered the first known fossilized dinosaur eggs, in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. Due to the proximity of Protoceratops, these eggs were believed at the time to belong to this species.