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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.

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"Recessive" Quotes from Famous Books

... so much rely. G. Mendel, an experimenter, found that when he crossed a giant variety of peas with a dwarf variety, the off-spring were all tall. The giants were called "dominant"; the disappearing dwarfs, "recessive". But among the second generation of this giant offspring, giants and dwarfs appeared in the proportion of 3 to 1. But when these dwarfs were self-fertilized, successive generations were all dwarfs. The recessive character ...

— The Evolution Of Man Scientifically Disproved • William A. Williams

... children. As Stephanie grew up she had repeated in her very differing body some of her father's and mother's characteristics—an interesting variability of soul. She was tall, dark, sallow, lithe, with a strange moodiness of heart and a recessive, fulgurous gleam in her chestnut-brown, almost brownish-black eyes. She had a full, sensuous, Cupid's mouth, a dreamy and even languishing expression, a graceful neck, and a heavy, dark, and yet pleasingly modeled face. From both her father ...

— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser

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