Recessive



GRE 蓝宝

解释

GRE 红宝书

• adj. 隐性遗传的; 后退的
• ［英］ adj. 隐性遗传的;后退的 ( tending to recede; withdrawn)
• ［类］ 反义词: dominant ( 显性的)
• ［记］ 反义词为dominant ( 显性的)

Webster Collegiate

I. adjective

• Date: circa 1673
• 1.
  • a. tending to recede
  • b. withdrawn 2
• 2.
  • a. producing little or no phenotypic effect when occurring in heterozygous condition with a contrasting allele <recessive genes>
  • b. expressed only when the determining gene is in the homozygous condition <recessive traits><a recessive disease>
• ? recessively adverb
• ? recessiveness noun

II. noun

• Date: 1900
• 1. an organism possessing one or more recessive characters
• 2. a recessive character or gene

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