recessive

• adj. 隱性的；逆行的；後退的
• n. 隱性性狀

來自 recess,後退，-ive,形容詞後綴。引申詞義隱性的。

recessive (adj.)

1670s, from Latin recess-, past participle stem of recedere (see recede) + -ive. Linguistics sense is from 1879; in genetics, 1900, from German recessiv (Mendel, 1865). Related: Recessiveness.

1. Sickle-cell anaemia is passed on through a recessive gene.

鐮狀細胞貧血通過隱性基因遺傳給後代。

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2. Blue eyes are recessive and brown eyes are dominant.

藍眼睛是隱性的;而褐色眼睛是顯性的.

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3. F 1 females could be backcrossed to the male homozygous recessive parent.

也可用雌性F1與隱性純合雄性親本回交.

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4. In normal seedlings the deleterious recessive genes are not expressed.

有害的隱性基因在正常菌木中不表現出來.

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5. The allele for blue eyes is recessive.

蘭色眼睛的等位基因是隱性的.

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