NOUN
- an allele that produces its characteristic phenotype only when its paired allele is identical
How To Use recessive allele In A Sentence
- For a lethal recessive allele, mean frequency monotonically decreases as population size decreases.
- The two most often cited explanations for this phenomenon are unmasking of the effects of deleterious recessive alleles and summation of the dominant effects of multiple loci brought together in the progeny.
- It would operate like inbreeding, which increases the odds of offspring inheriting the same deleterious recessive allele from both parents.
- Like the recessive alleles, frayed spindles and monopolar spindles characterized the spindle defects.
