re·ces·sive
re·ces·sive/rəˈsesiv/
adjective
- relating to or denoting heritable characteristics controlled by genes that are expressed in offspring only when inherited from both parents, i.e., when not masked by a dominant characteristic inherited from one parent.
- undergoing an economic recession."the recessive housing market"
- (of the stress on a word or phrase) tending to fall on the first syllable."recessive stress is characteristic of British English"
noun
a recessive trait or gene.
Sep 25, 2024 · of or relating to a gene (= chemical pattern) that causes a particular characteristic only when it is passed on by both parents.
Sep 16, 2024 · a recessive physical characteristic only appears in a child if it has two genes for this characteristic, one from each parent.
3 days ago · recessive in British English · 1. tending to recede or go back; receding · 2. genetics. a. (of a gene) capable of producing its characteristic phenotype in the ...
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Oct 2, 2024 · a gene that is found in one of two or more different forms in the same position in a chromosome, and so produces a particular characteristic that can be ...
17 hours ago · An allele is one of two or more versions of DNA sequence (a single base or a segment of bases) at a given genomic location.
3 days ago · Complete dominance is a genetic scenario where one allele completely masks the expression of another allele for a specific trait, resulting in a phenotype ...
Sep 25, 2024 · In many cases, genotypic interactions between the two alleles at a locus can be described as dominant or recessive, according to which of the two homozygous ...
Sep 26, 2024 · In most cases, it is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern , which means both copies of the gene in each cell must have a variant to cause the disorder.
Sep 23, 2024 · Autosomal recessive coding variants are well-known causes of rare disorders. We quantified the contribution of these variants to developmental disorders in ...
3 days ago · Analyze the impact of the lethal allele: Since homozygous recessive individuals do not reproduce, the allele cannot be passed on from these individuals, ...