The dominant seed color is yellow; therefore, the parental genotypes were YY (homozygous dominant) for the plants with yellow seeds and yy (homozygous recessive) for the plants with green seeds, respectively.
1. of or pertaining to any system claiming use or knowledge of secret or supernatural powers or agencies. 2. beyond ordinary knowledge or understanding. 3. secret; disclosed or communicated only to the initiated. 4. hidden from view. 5. Med. not readily detectable, esp. at the place of origin: occult bleeding.
For other uses, see Occult (disambiguation) . The occult (from the Latin word occultus clandestine, hidden, secret) is knowledge of the hidden. In common English usage, occult refers to knowledge of the paranormal , as opposed to knowledge of the measurable , usually referred to as science.ccult qualities are properties that have no known rational explanation; in the Middle Ages, for example, magnetism was considered an occult quality. Newton's contemporaries severely criticized his theory that gravity was effected through action at a distance, as occult.