Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun recessive_allele

1 sense of recessive allele

Sense 1
recessive allele, recessive -- (an allele that produces its characteristic phenotype only when its paired allele is identical)
       => allele, allelomorph -- ((genetics) either of a pair (or series) of alternative forms of a gene that can occupy the same locus on a particular chromosome and that control the same character; "some alleles are dominant over others")