recessive

recessive

英 [rɪ'sesɪv]
　　美 [rɪ'sɛsɪv]

adj. 隱性的；逆行的；後退的
　　n. 隱性性狀

中文詞源：

recessive 隱性的

來自 recess,後退，-ive,形容詞後綴。引申詞義隱性的。

例句：

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。

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.

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.

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.

5. The allele for blue eyes is recessive.
蘭色眼睛的等位基因是隱性的.