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recessively
Variant of recessive
adjective
- receding or tending to recede
- Genetics designating or relating to that one of any pair of allelic hereditary factors which, when both are present in the germ plasm, remains latentsee Mendel's laws
noun
Genetics a recessive character or characters
Related Forms:
- recessively adverb
- recessiveness noun
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