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

1 sense of recessive gene

Sense 1
recessive gene -- (gene that produces its characteristic phenotype only when its allele is identical; "the recessive gene for blue eyes")
       => gene, cistron, factor -- ((genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity; "genes were formerly called factors")