Definition of Recessives

1. recessive [n] - See also: recessive

Lexicographical Neighbors of Recessives

recessionista
recessionistas
recessionlike
recessionproof
recessions
recessitivity
recessive
recessive character
recessive gene
recessive inheritance
recessive oncogene
recessive trait
recessively
recessiveness
recessivenesses
recessives
recessus
recessus anterior
recessus cochlearis
recessus costodiaphragmaticus
recessus costomediastinalis
recessus duodenalis inferior
recessus duodenalis superior
recessus ellipticus
recessus epitympanicus
recessus hepatorenalis
recessus ileocaecalis inferior
recessus ileocaecalis superior
recessus inferior omentalis
recessus infundibuli

Literary usage of Recessives

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Heredity and Environment in the Development of Men by Edwin Grant Conklin (1922)
"And in every other case Mendel found that the ratio of dominants to recessives in the second filial generation was approximately three to one. ..."

2. The Laws of Heredity by George Archdall O'Brien Reid (1910)
"If crossed with a recessive half the offspring should be impure dominants and half recessives. (3) Pure extracted dominants, mated together, should produce ..."

3. Being Well-born: An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael Frederic Guyer (1916)
"... Certain Forms of Insanity, But Not All, Seem to Behave as Mendelian Recessives.—A number of psychiatrists and investigators of the inheritance of ..."

4. Being Well-born: An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael Frederic Guyer (1916)
"... Seem to Behave as Mendelian Recessives.—A number of psychiatrists and investigators of the inheritance of insanities (Rudin, ..."

5. A Practical Course in Botany: With Especial Reference to Its Bearings on by Eliza Frances Andrews (1911)
"... line 2 of the diagram) to •4 recessives (R). Planting all the seeds of the second generation and carefully shielding their progeny from foreign pollen, ..."

6. A Practical Course in Botany: With Especial Reference to Its Bearings on by Eliza Frances Andrews (1911)
"... line 2 of the diagram) to -\ recessives (R). Planting all the seeds of the second generation and carefully shielding their progeny from foreign pollen, ..."

7. Evolution and Animal Life: An Elementary Discussion of Facts, Processes by David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1907)
""Like the pure recessives, the pure dominants are thenceforth pure, and only give rise to ... The recessives are pure like those of the last generation, ..."

8. Evolution and Animal Life: An Elementary Discussion of Facts, Processes by David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1907)
""Like the pure recessives, the pure dominants are thenceforth pure, and only give rise to ... The recessives are pure like those of the last generation, ..."

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