For example, if you name your daughter as the primary beneficiary on your life insurance policy and your son as the contingent beneficiary, your daughter receives the entire $100,000 if she is alive when you die, and your son receives nothing. If your daughter dies before you, your son receives the entire $100,000.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia. n purtenance Appurtenance; pertinents; belongings; the inwards or intestines of an animal: especially applied to the pluck, or the heart, liver, and lungs. n Purtenance purâ²ten-ans that which pertains or belongs to: n Purtenance purâ²ten-ans (B.) the inwards or intestines of an animal.
Home Â» Codominance. Definition. noun. (genetics) A form of dominance in which the alleles of a gene pair in a heterozygote are fully expressed thereby resulting in offspring with a phenotype that is neither dominant nor recessive. Supplement. In genetics, dominance pertains to the property of a gene (or allele) in relation to other genes or alleles.