recessive

/ri-ses-iv/US // rɪˈsɛs ɪv //UK // (rɪˈsɛsɪv) //

隐性,隐性的,隐性人,隐性遗传

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : tending to go, move, or slant back; receding.
- : Genetics. of or relating to a recessive.
- : Phonetics. showing a tendency to recede from the end toward the beginning of a word.

n.名词 noun

1
Genetics.
- : that one of a pair of alternative alleles whose effect is masked by the activity of the second when both are present in the same cell or organism.
- : the trait or character determined by such an allele.Compare dominant.

adj.passive

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In stark contrast with the sunny personality of his predecessor, Tony Blair, Brown's demeanor is dour, recessive and technocratic.
The Vinifera characters are wholly recessive in vine and foliage, the plant resembling very closely its American parent, Concord.
While those traits which are dominated by the other and opposite traits and do not appear in offspring, he styled "Recessive."
But any individual sex-cell, or gamete, cannot (according to his view) bear both Dominant and Recessive traits.
Thirdly, that the Dominant order of traits are paramount over and extinguish the Recessive order of traits.
The plant of Dominant type, though still bi-sexual, is making for a male genus; the Recessive type is making for a Female genus.