Examples of 'recessive' in a sentence

Meaning of "recessive"

recessive (adjective): describing a genetic trait that is not expressed in the presence of a dominant gene
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  • Going back; receding.
  • Able to be masked by a dominant allele or trait.
  • Not dominant; whose effect is masked by stronger effects.
  • A gene that is recessive.

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recessive
Two points about recessive mutations are important.
Recessive according to their intensity and effect.
This is an autosomal recessive inborn error of metabolism.
Doctors were talking to my parents about recessive genes.
Its probably some recessive genetic defect.
The gene for red hair is recessive.
These are known as recessive and dominant states.
He went through that family like a recessive gene.
The opposite of a recessive gene is a dominant gene.
The condition is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern.
An autosomal recessive form has also been described.
I sort have a thing for recessive genes.
How a recessive trait can become dominant.
These mutations are usually recessive in diploid organisms.
Transmission of the disease is believed to be autosomal recessive.

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C syndrome has an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance.
The disorder is hereditary and autosomal recessive.
Variegated is not a simple recessive or dominant allele.
This is a recessive trait so both parents are carriers.
This disorder is an autosomal recessive form of xanthomatosis.
Some alleles are neither dominant nor recessive.
Suggestions for a non recessive economic policy.
Inheritance can be autosomal dominant or autosomal recessive.
Autosomal recessive inheritance is the most common.
Asians do not carry the recessive gene.
Its a recessive gene carried down through families.
A black bear with a rare recessive gene.
Like most recessive sex linked.
This condition is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern.
It has an autosomal recessive transmission with variable expression.
Can not tell if they are recessive or not.
Autosomal recessive inheritance has been suggested in some cases.
With a man with strong recessive chub.
The autosomal recessive form is typically severe in presentation.
Eagnous conjunctivitis is a rare autosomal recessive disease.
Autosomal recessive onset is most common.
These defects are inherited as autosomal recessive traits.
Recessive colours and traits are rare.
The disease has an autosomal recessive inheritance.
The recessive gene that causes red hair.
Hartnup disease is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait.
It is either autosomal recessive or autosomal dominant.
The allele for the band is recessive.
Omenn syndrome is an autosomal recessive severe combined immunodeficiency.
Canavan disease is inherited in an autosomal recessive fashion.
The unibrow is a recessive genetic trait.
The disorder is inherited via autosomal recessive.
This spotted fur is a recessive characteristic.
Some genes are dominant and others are recessive.
It exhibits an autosomal recessive inheritance pattern.

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