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Definition of Recessiveness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recessiveness
Literary usage of Recessiveness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity by Thomas Hunt Morgan (1915)
"DOMINANCE AND recessiveness The four-o'clock (Mirabilis jalapa) has a white and
a red-flowered variety. If these are crossed the hybrid is pink in color. ..."
2. Inheritance in Canaries by Charles Benedict Davenport (1908)
"recessiveness OF PLAIN HEAD. The following table contains, extracted from the
general table, those experiments that give an answer to the question whether ..."
3. Inheritance in Poultry by Charles Benedict Davenport (1906)
"While dominance and recessiveness are typically found in ... The phenomena of
dominance and recessiveness do not always accompany segregation. ..."
4. Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries and Their Practical Application by Luther Burbank, John Whitson, Robert John, Henry Smith Williams, Luther Burbank Society (1915)
"But it is equally obvious that there are vast numbers of other heritable characters
regarding which no such clear matching as to dominance and recessiveness ..."
5. The Modern Treatment of Nervous and Mental Diseases by William Alanson White, Smith Ely Jelliffe (1913)
"of a more pronounced degree of recessiveness. As, for example, certain acute
recoverable psychoses are dominant over epilepsy which we have seen is probably ..."
6. Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries and Their Practical Application by Luther Burbank, Luther Burbank Society (U.S.), John Whitson, Henry Smith Williams, Robert John (1915)
"And so the early enthusiasts were led finally to see that Mendelian dominance
and recessiveness apply only to a certain small number of hereditary factors ..."
7. Application of Some of the Principles of Heredity to Plant Breeding by William Jasper Spillman (1909)
"DOMINANCE AND recessiveness. The simplest of the principles discovered by ...
The phenomena of dominance and recessiveness may be illustrated by a few ..."
8. The Physical Basis of Heredity by Thomas Hunt Morgan (1919)
"Until an F2 generation can be raised it is obviously hazardous to speak here of
Mendelian dominance and recessiveness of characters that are based on F, ..."
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