(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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Recessive n. (Genetics) 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).
... factor as a unit which does not grow nor itself evolve in any way, it is difficult to conceive where it came from. The dominant, according to Bateson, must be due to the presence of something which is absent in the recessive. He gives as an instance the black pigment in the Silky fowl, which is present in the skin and connective tissues. In his own experiments he found this was recessive to the white-skin character of the Brown Leghorn, and he assumes ... — Hormones and Heredity • J. T. Cunningham
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