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Recessive   /rəsˈɛsɪv/   Listen
Recessive

noun
1.
An allele that produces its characteristic phenotype only when its paired allele is identical.  Synonym: recessive allele.



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"Recessive" Quotes from Famous Books



... from the history, it seems certain that no results such as shown by Dugdale could have followed from inheritance. Defectiveness is a recessive factor; normality a dominant one. If such were not true, this would be a world of feeble-minded. If the Mendelian law held good in this regard, from a union of a defective and a normal person, three out of four would be normal, but as a matter of fact, the percentage ...
— Crime: Its Cause and Treatment • Clarence Darrow



Words linked to "Recessive" :   allelomorph, allele, genetics, recession, genetic science, dominant



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