单词 | recessiveness |
释义 | recessivenessn. Chiefly Genetics. The state or property of being recessive; spec. = recessivity n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [noun] > allele > dominant or recessive recessiveness1896 recessive1900 dominance1902 coupling1906 pseudodominance1921 pseudodominant1948 1896 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 17 104 A few remnants of the old recessive accent in proper names..should have been added to the other facts from which the recessiveness of the old Latin accent may be inferred. 1903 Science 20 Mar. 448/1 Constant dominance is no more a regular behavior than recessiveness is. 1931 Jrnl. Philos. 28 525 He [sc. Professor Laird] says that subjectivity means ‘recessiveness’, and that recessiveness means the transfer of the adjective from the object to the subject. 1938 L. Ride Genetics & Clinician ii. 17 The dominance of some characters in the echinoderm may be changed to recessiveness by altering the chemical nature of the sea-water. 1970 L. E. Sweet Peoples & Cultures Middle East 24 It should be added that dominance and recessiveness in this sense are onomastic rather than political. 1994 Jrnl. Agric. Entomol. 11 137 Sex-linkage of the permethrin resistance allele negated the recessiveness of this allele. 2004 P. Ainsworth Understanding Mental Retardation i. 8 This gene inactivation results in its partner gene (supplied by the other parent) being expressed without respect to the usual issues of dominance and recessiveness of either gene. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1896 |
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