recessive allele

collocation in English

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recessive
adjective
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/rɪˈses.ɪv/us
/rɪˈses.ɪv/
(of genes and the physical qualities they control) only appearing in a child if both parents supply the ...
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allele
noun[C]
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/əˈliːl/us
/əˈliːl/
a gene that is found in one of two or more different forms in the same position in a chromosome, and so produces a particular characteristic that can be different for different people, such as ...
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This ' reproductive compensation ' reduces selection against the agent causing early mortality (therecessivealleleor infective agent) and biases our estimates of historic mortality rates.
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The male sterility is controlled by a singlerecessiveallele.
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Alleles are ordered according to their dominance hierarchy with the mostrecessiveallelefirst.
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These observations were coherent with the segregation of a biallelic major gene, with a favourable andrecessivealleleincreasing milking speed.
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X-linked recessive traits are expressed in all heterogametics, but are only expressed in those homogametics that are homozygous for therecessiveallele.
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Solid white feather is due to an autosomalrecessiveallele("wh") in homocygosis, although some birds may exhibit a few black spots.
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Most balancer chromosomes also carry arecessiveallelesuch as the ebony mutation that is only manifest in these stocks with two balancer chromosomes.
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Several genetic studies have concluded nectarines are produced due to arecessiveallele, whereas a fuzzy peach skin is dominant.
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The trait may be produced by a homozygousrecessiveallele.
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All offspring of a carrier female have a 50% chance of inheriting the mutation if the father does not carry therecessiveallele.
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The expected time to fixation of thisrecessivealleledue to genetic drift alone ranged from about 1,100 years to about 100,000 years.
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White flowers are caused by arecessiveallelein tomato plants.
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In this case, "a" is arecessiveallelewhich has negative effects.
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Only those that received therecessiveallelefrom both parents present with the recessive phenotype.
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One of the early colonists apparently carried arecessiveallelefor retinitis pigmentosa, a progressive form of blindness that afflicts homozygous individuals.
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Therecessivealleleis assigned the same letter in lower case.
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However, we expect a high, positive sampling covariance under a range of models in which variation is due to rare, partially recessive alleles.
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Natural selection may reduce the frequency of deleterious recessive alleles in populations previously subjected to inbreeding.
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The concentration of our observations in androcyclic lines is consistent with deleterious recessive alleles (above) being the cause of segregation distortions.
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Biologically, this means that selection acts only against heterozygotes, which is obviously not the case for highly recessive alleles.
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