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Recessive   Listen
adjective
Recessive  adj.  
1.
Going back; receding.
2.
(Genetics) Not appearing in the phenotype unless both alleles of the organism have the same trait; of genetic characteristics, or of the genes coding for such characteristics, in diploid organisms. Opposite of dominant; hemophilia is a recessive trait.






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Words linked to "Recessive" :   genetics, dominant, allelomorph, recessive gene, X-linked recessive inheritance, recessionary, allele, recession, recessive allele, genetic science, autosomal recessive defect



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