recessive
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Some alleles are dominant, meaning their traits are expressed, while others are recessive and remain hidden when paired with a dominant allele.
From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026
In those cases, whether an allele is active can depend on whether it was inherited from the mother or the father rather than whether it is dominant or recessive.
From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026
Efforts to make it appear that one of the world’s wickedest men would be in thrall to this milky, recessive nonentity are laughable.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
A child of first cousins carries a 6% chance of inheriting a recessive disorder, compared to 3% for the general population.
From BBC • Feb. 26, 2025
Since tallness was dominant, all the parental plants in this experiment were tall to start; the recessive trait had disappeared.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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