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Definition of Recessive

1. Noun. An allele that produces its characteristic phenotype only when its paired allele is identical.

2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to a recession.

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

Definition of Recessive

1. a. Going back; receding.

Definition of Recessive

1. Adjective. Going back; receding. ¹

2. Adjective. (genetics) Able to be covered up by a dominant trait. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Recessive

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Recessive

1. An allele or mutation that is only expressed phenotypically when it is present in the homozygous form. In the heterozygote it is obscured by dominant alleles. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Recessive

recess appointments recessed recesses recessing recession recessional recessional march recessionals recessionary recessionista

recessionistas recessionlike recessionproof recessions recessitivity recessive (current term) recessive character recessive gene recessive inheritance recessive oncogene

recessive trait recessively recessiveness recessivenesses recessives recessus recessus anterior recessus cochlearis recessus costodiaphragmaticus recessus costomediastinalis

Literary usage of Recessive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Heredity and Environment in the Development of Men by Edwin Grant Conklin (1915)
"germ cells, one bearing the dominant and the other the recessive factor, and the chance combination of these two classes of male and female gametes will ..."

2. Heredity and Environment in the Development of Men by Edwin Grant Conklin (1922)
"When a pure dominant is crossed with a hybrid dominant-recessive (Fig. 29 r) all of the offspring show the dominant character, though one-half are pure ..."

3. Introduction to the Study of Sociology by Edward Cary Hayes (1918)
"But it is important to observe that those of the third generation who do not show the evil trait, having developed from two recessive germs ( ) cannot ..."

4. Introduction to the Study of Sociology by Edward Cary Hayes (1915)
"But it is important to observe that those of the third generation who do not show the evil trait, having developed from two recessive germs ( ) cannot ..."

5. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"recessive accent also occurs in compound proper names in -<ov; ... The vocative singular has recessive accent, ..."

6. Discrete Oscillation Theory by Ravi P. Agarwal (2005)
"Behavioral properties of dominant and recessive solutions It is known that recessive solutions are unique up to a constant factor. For completeness we prove ..."

7. Heredity and Environment in the Development of Men by Edwin Grant Conklin (1922)
"... 2 dominant-récessives : i pure recessive ; c, Dominant-recessive X pure ... -When a pure dominant is crossed with a hybrid dominant-recessive (Fig. ..."

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