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recessive medical definition
adjective
- Tending to go backward or recede.
- Of, relating to, or being an allele that does not produce a characteristic effect when present with a dominant allele.
- Of, relating to, or being a trait expressed only when the determining allele is present in the homozygous condition.
- A recessive allele or trait.
- An organism having a recessive trait.
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