recessive

CEFRB2

/ɹɪˈsɛsɪv/

adjective · noun

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adjective
Describing a genetic feature that appears only when inherited from both parents.
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adjective
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Able to be masked by a dominant allele or trait.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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The study explores the expression of various types of recessive traits.
1944 June 21, James A. G. Rehn, South African Bird-Locust Records and Notes (Orthoptera; Acrididae; Cyrtacanthacridinae; Group Cyrtacanthacres), Notulae Naturae, Number 137, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, page 3, The Lydenburg male and the other...
2008, Ascertainment Test, entry in George P. Rédei, Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics, and Informatics, page 147, In three-child families 27/64 will have no affected offspring, 9/37 will have 2, and 1/37 are expected to have 3 recessives.

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This plan takes advantage of the fact that barless is the most recessive of a series of alleles.
1988, American Pigeon Journal, volume 76, page 36
The series of murine Agouti alleles is a consistent array as it progresses from the most recessive to the most dominant allele (Jackson, 1994).
2001, D. P. Sponenberg, M. F. Rothschild, 6: Genetics of Coat Colour and Hair Texture, page 65
Suppose, for example, that we started with a population consisting of pure dominants, heterozygotes, and recessives in the ratio 1 : 4 : 4.
1915, Reginald Crundall Punnett, Mimicty in Butterflies, page 95
Finally, if we suppose provisionally that the mutant genes are dominant just as often as they are recessive, selection will be far more severe in eliminating the disadvantageous dominants than in eliminating the disadvantageous recessives.
1930, R. A. Fisher, J. H. Bennett, The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, page 50
Selection favoring recessives is common in maize breeding for several traits, such as sweetness, opacity, brachysm, lack of ligules.
1988, Arnel R. Hallauer, Marcelo J. Carena, J.B. Miranda Filho, 6: Selection: Theory, 2nd edition, page 234

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From Latin recēdō + -ive, or directly from New Latin recessīvus.