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How to pronounce recessive in English?

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Synonyms recessive allele
Type of allele, allelomorph
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Synonyms recessionary
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Examples of recessive

recessive
The character Hermione illustrates the idea of recessive genes, Driessnack said.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Recessive LAMC3 mutations cause malformations of occipital cortical development.
From the sciencedaily.com
Either by deliberate strategy or just by his innate nature, he's more recessive.
From the theatlantic.com
Parental studies suggested recessive inheritance with no carrier manifestations.
From the nature.com
Recessive traits are only expressed if you get two copies of them at conception.
From the scienceblogs.com
Eariler studies suggested LCPD is transmitted in an autosomal recessive pattern.
From the sciencedaily.com
A bundle of recessive genes and dominant ethnicities all ending up in one place.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
X-linked genes just like autosomal genes have both dominant and recessive types.
From the en.wikipedia.org
It may be simply the whims of genetic variance and dominant vs recessive genes.
From the newscientist.com
More examples
  • Recessive allele: an allele that produces its characteristic phenotype only when its paired allele is identical
  • Recessionary: of or pertaining to a recession
  • Dominance in genetics is a non-linear relationship between different forms (alleles) of a gene and the resultant phenotype. A canonical example in a diploid species like humans is the simple 2-allele model of eye-color, where the brown (B) allele is dominant over the blue (b) allele. ...
  • Going back; receding; Able to be covered up by a dominant trait
  • (Recessiveness) in gene pairs, the lack of expression of one allele's coded characteristic, because the other allele is dominant. Recessive genes must be present as a pair in order to exhibit the trait that they code for.
  • Genetic recessiveness
  • One of a series of terms applied to the phenotypic effect of a particular allele in reference to another allele (usually the standard wild-type allele) with respect to a given trait. ...
  • Moving back and out of view. In genetics, a recessive gene is a gene that does not express its instructions when paired with a dominant gene.
  • Where there is no family history of the disease, but it occurs on occasion.