Recessive

What do we mean by recessive?

Tending to go backward or recede. adjective

Of, relating to, or designating an allele that does not produce a characteristic effect when present with a dominant allele. adjective

Of or relating to a trait that is expressed only when the determining allele is present in the homozygous condition. adjective

A recessive allele or trait. noun

An organism having a recessive trait. noun

Tending to recede; receding; going back: used especially of accent regarded as transferred or moved backward from the end toward the beginning of a word.

In biology, opposed to dominant, 2. See recessive, n.

In biology, an organism that manifests and transmits to descendants the character which is antagonistic to a dominant, or a character which is antagonistic to a dominant character. See dominant, 2. noun

Going back; receding. adjective

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. adjective

A genetic trait determined by a recessive{2} allele; a trait not appearing in the phenotype unless both chromosomes of the organism have the same allele; also, an allele which is recessive{2}. noun

Going back; receding. adjective

Able to be covered up by a dominant trait. adjective

(of genes) producing its characteristic phenotype only when its allele is identical adjective

Of or pertaining to a recession adjective

An allele that produces its characteristic phenotype only when its paired allele is identical noun

A gene that is recessive.

Words that are spelled similarly to recessive:
recessive, receive, recession, excessive, receptive, recursive, reclusive, regressive, repressive, accessive, processive, remissive, redressive, recessing, reversive, recessives.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word recessive:
autosome, alleles, ichthyosis, allele, homozygous, heterozygous, autosomal, defective, inbreeding, complementation, deleterious, albinism, ataxia, haemophilia, phenotype, agouti, myopathy, genotype, hypoplasia, mutation, trait, dysplasia, congenital, disorder, inborn, pied, cerebellar, retardation, deafness, dwarfism, inheritance, dystrophy, chromosome, gene, albino, deficiency, melanin, purging, progeny, abnormality, locus, cystic, metabolic, genes, diploid, fibrosis, genetic, masking, loci, dominant, syndrome, defect, foal, recombinant, abnormal, pigment, abnormalities, atrophy, offspring, dilute, inherit, mutant, traits, anemia, muscular, familial, symptoms, mitochondrial, chromosomes, copy, characterized, subunit, lethal, disease, metabolism, unaffected, renal, affects, defects, faulty, enzyme, skeletal, kidney, hereditary, incidence, pattern, genetics, inherited, manifest, blindness, plumage, avoidance, breeds, affecting, affected, manner, stature, dominance, accumulation, mating.

Words that rhyme with recessive:
aggressive, progressive, impressive, excessive, oppressive, successive, possessive, expressive, regressive, obsessive, repressive, crescive, depressive, unimpressive, pressive, guessive, essive, past progressive, present progressive, future progressive, abs of, abscess of, access of, address of, assess of, bess of, caress of, cbs of, ccs of, chess of, confess of, distress of, dress of, dss of, egress of, es of, ess of, esse of, excess of, express of, fess of, finesse of, gress of, guess of, headdress of, hess of, hesse of, impress of, jess of, largesse of, lcs of, les of, less of, letterpress of, ls of, mess of, nes of, ness of, nevertheless of, noblesse of, nonetheless of, oas of, odessa of, overdress of, possess of, press of, presse of, process of, progress of, recess of, redress of, ress of, stress of, success of, tess of, tress of, ts of, undress of, unless of, uss of, walesa of, wes of, ws of, yes of.

Adjectives that are often used to describe recessive:
autosomal, linked, homozygous, simple, mendelian, dominant, double, pure, rare, monogenic, xlinked, triple, lethal, sexlinked, genetic, deleterious, probable, incomplete, undesirable, sporadic, weaker, sulfatase, heterozygous, dwarfness, compare, lust, farber.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective recessive:
gene, trait, inheritance, disorder, genes, disease, allele, mutations, condition, traits, disorders, character, form, alleles, mutation, pattern, mode, syndrome, type, diseases, manner, forms, lethals, characters, conditions, transmission, factor, fashion, defect, dystrophy, phenotype, mutants, factors, deafness, characteristics, defects, mutant, ichthyosis, bullosa, deficiency, phenotypes, patterns, parkinsonism, parent, homozygotes, characteristic, genotype, individuals, pigmentosa, heredity, loss, myotonia, syndromes, albinism, ataxia, homozygote, abnormality, modes, atrophy, hypothesis, dysplasia, osteopetrosis, oncogenes, individual, markers, offspring, locus, color, mechanism, abnormalities, variant, error, accent, loci, epistasis, allelomorph, neuropathy, myopathy, males, immunodeficiency, genotypes, pedigree, microcephaly.

Consonant match to recessive:
recess of.

Words that sound like recessive:
recessive, processive, recessing, precisive, reassessing, resistive, excessive, accessive, recess, restive, recesses, recessed, remissive, receive, decisive, possessive, processing, regressive, resizing, processo, obsessive, incisive, successive, concessive, racist, responsive, receptive, rasist, rhesus, resis, rosacea, russes, risus, receiving, rustling, rusting, reducing, rosette, reassess, assessing, rusts, recursive, repressive, recife, pressive, resetting, reassessed, resourcing, racette, rusks, rostov, crescive, caressive, reversive, ascensive, proceso, recessive gene, resizes.