recessiveとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• 韻: -ɛsɪv

形容詞

recessive (comparative more recessive, superlative most recessive)

1. Going back; receding.
2. (genetics) Able to be masked by a dominant allele or trait.
   • 1944 June 21, James A. G. Rehn, South African Bird-Locust Records and Notes (Orthoptera; Acrididae; Cyrtacanthacridinae; Group Cyrtacanthacres), Notulae Naturae, Number 137, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, page 3,

     The Lydenburg male and the other two females have the infuscate pattern definitely more recessive and less evident, although traceable.

   • 1988, American Pigeon Journal, Volume 76, page 36,

     This plan takes advantage of the fact that barless is the most recessive of a series of alleles.

   • 2001, D. P. Sponenberg, M. F. Rothschild, 6: Genetics of Coat Colour and Hair Texture, page 65,

     The series of murine Agouti alleles is a consistent array as it progresses from the most recessive to the most dominant allele (Jackson, 1994).

3. (by extension) Not dominant; whose effect is masked by stronger effects.
   • 1979, Ken Heap, Process and Action in Work with Groups: The Preconditions for Treatment and Growth, page ix,

     The worker–client relationship is more recessive and has a more catalytic and enabling quality.

   • 2004, Jonathan H. Turner, Human Institutions: A Theory of Societal Evolution‎^[1], page 112:

     The law-making or legislative component was the most recessive component of the legal system of hunter-gatherers, although decisions or advice given by mediators were remembered and used again to settle similar violations of rules or disputes among parties.

反意語

• (genetics): dominant

名詞

recessive (複数形 recessives)

1. (genetics) A gene that is recessive.
   • 1915, Reginald Crundall Punnett, Mimicty in Butterflies‎^[2], page 95:

     Suppose, for example, that we started with a population consisting of pure dominants, heterozygotes, and recessives in the ratio 1 : 4 : 4.