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recessive - use in sentences
Converse of object
- call: The pattern of inheritance ( the way it is inherited ) is called autosomal recessive.
Adjective modifier
- autosomal: The most common mode of inherited deafness is autosomal recessive, which accounts for around 75 % of all cases.
- x-linked: Includes X-linked recessive and Autosomal recessive modes of inheritance.
- Mendelian: It doesn't follow a clear mendelian recessive or dominant pattern.
- simple: Many of the other genes are simple recessives that have easy-to-understand effects.
- dominant: RP can be sporadic, autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive or X-linked.
Modifies a noun
- allele: Here the recessive allele produces the ordinary blue, also called English blue or American blue.
- inheritance: An illustration of the three examples of recessive inheritance is shown below.
- trait: Dwarfism from impaired longitudinal growth of bones is a recessive trait that affects males more strongly than females.
- mutation: Charcoal is a recessive mutation in need of preservation!
- gene: Sons, however will have only the recessive gene from the mother.
- disorder: Cystic fibrosis is the most common recessive disorder ).
Modifying Another Word
- usually: One theory is that mutated alleles are usually recessive.
- incompletely: If the mutation is dominant or or incompletely recessive, resistance will spread despite the refuge.
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