Recessive synonyms

rĭ-sĕs'ĭv

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passive
(Electronics) Exhibiting no gain or contributing no energy:
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not dominant
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latent
(Biology) Being in a condition of biological rest or inactivity characterized by cessation of growth or development and the suspension of many metabolic processes:
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receding
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suspended
Hung from above.
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inactive
Not active or tending to be active:
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regressive
(Of a tax) Whose rate decreases as the amount increases.
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carrier inheritance (related)
Relating to the form of a gene that is not expressed as a trait in an individual unless two such genes are inherited, one from each parent. In an organism having two different genes for a trait, the recessive form is overpowered by its counterpart, or dominant, form located on the other of a pair of chromosomes. In humans, lack of dimples is a recessive trait, while the presence of dimples is dominant.
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refluent
Ebbing
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dominant (antonym)
Dominant refers to a gene that will present itself by producing a characteristic that can be inherited.
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overbalancing (antonym)
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recessionary
Of or relating to a recession.
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recessive allele
an allele that produces its characteristic phenotype only when its paired allele is identical
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recedent
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retrocedent
Tending to retrocede; moving backwards.
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heterozygote (related)
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polygenic (related)
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allele (related)
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Clearflight (related)
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agammaglobulinaemia (related)
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dRTA (related)
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homozygous (related)
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sex-linked (related)
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relapsing
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dormant
Being in a condition of biological rest or inactivity characterized by cessation of growth or development and the suspension of many metabolic processes:
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heterozygous (related)
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autosomal (related)
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x-linked (related)
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Find another word for recessive. In this page you can discover 29 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for recessive, like: passive, not dominant, latent, receding, suspended, inactive, regressive, carrier inheritance, refluent, dominant and prevailing.
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Recessive Sentence Examples

  • It happened, however, that a recessive colour in one generation becomes the dominant in a succeeding one.

  • If a mother is a carrier for an X-linked recessive form of EDS, she may have affected or unaffected sons, or carrier or unaffected daughters, depending on the second sex chromosome inherited from the father.

  • If one parent has been diagnosed with an autosomal dominant form of VWD or both parents are carriers for an autosomal recessive form of VWD, then prenatal testing should be considered.

  • Then, in the scheme below, if A b and (A)N b are two brothers who both marry normal wives N, their children N(A) in the first case will be all normal in appearance but will be carrying albinism recessive; and in the second case some will be pure normal individuals N, and some will be like the children of the first brother, i.e.

  • The mother also has a 50 percent chance of passing the defective recessive gene to her daughters who will be carriers of the disorder (like their mother), but will not show symptoms of the disease.

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