1670s, from Latin recess-, past participle stem of recedere (see recede) + -ive. Linguistics sense is from 1879; in genetics, 1900, from German recessiv (Mendel, 1865). Related: Recessiveness.
实用例句
1. Sickle-cell anaemia is passed on through a recessive gene.
镰状细胞贫血通过隐性基因遗传给后代。
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2. Blue eyes are recessive and brown eyes are dominant.
蓝眼睛是隐性的;而褐色眼睛是显性的.
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3. F 1 females could be backcrossed to the male homozygous recessive parent.
也可用雌性F1与隐性纯合雄性亲本回交.
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4. In normal seedlings the deleterious recessive genes are not expressed.
