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Recessive

adjective

Of or pertaining to a recession. Synonym: recessionary.

(of genes) producing its characteristic phenotype only when its allele is identical.

noun

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

... generation. The Mendelians have given much attention to facts of this nature; and though their general method of exposition seems to me quite unjustifiably exact and precise, it cannot be denied that it is often vividly illuminating. It is so in this connexion. They distinguish between "dominant" and "recessive" qualities, and they establish cases in which parents with all the dominant characteristics produce offspring of recessive type. Recessive qualities are constantly being masked by dominant ones and emerging again in the next generation. It is not the individual that ...

— First and Last Things • H. G. Wells

... difference between them is that the hybrid which contains both the yellow and the green factors is in appearance not intermediate, but like the yellow parent stock. Yellow is said therefore to be dominant and green to be recessive. ...

— A Critique of the Theory of Evolution • Thomas Hunt Morgan

... sex of course immediately suggest recessive or unexpressed characters in the well-known Mendelian inheritance phenomena. In the bird-castration cases, we saw that to remove the inhibiting sex glands caused previously latent characters to act like dominant or expressed ones. The case of ...

— Taboo and Genetics • Melvin Moses Knight, Iva Lowther Peters, and Phyllis Mary Blanchard