recessivityn.
/ˌrɪsɛˈsɪvᵻti/, U.S. /ˌrɛsəˈsɪvᵻdi/, /ˌrisəˈsɪvᵻdi/ Genetics.
Of a gene, inherited trait, etc.: the property or state of being recessive (recessive adj. 2). Cf. dominance n. 2.
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1905 Science 7 Apr. 541/1 The phenomena of hybridization..for the analysis of..the various principles governing the transmission, activity, dominancy, latency and recessivity promises to yield results of the first magnitude concerning the mechanism of descent and heredity.
1949 F. B. Hutt Genetics of Fowl iii. 51 The important thing to remember is that dominance and recessivity are relative terms and that the expression of most characters varies because of modifying genes.
1992 Cambr. Encycl. Human Evol. (1994) vii. i. 257/2 Mendel's..first important discoveries of the behaviour of gene pairs are the phenomena of dominance and recessivity.
2004 Current Biol. 14 R344/1 The Drosophila mutations are recessive because they inactivate genes, so that their recessivity has a physiological, rather than an evolutionary, cause.
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