Anne Wojcicki

My sister learned she was a carrier for a recessive disease, Bloom syndrome, late in one of her pregnancies. I remember the panicked call and the weeks of worry as she and her husband awaited his test results; if he was also a carrier, this meant their daughter had a one in four chance of being born with the disorder.

American Scientist

Sam Kean

Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.

American Writer

Bill Foster

I often say that I inherited the family's recessive gene for adult-onset political activism.

American Politician

Used in genetics to explain traits not visible unless both parents contribute the gene.

Genetic Context

A recessive trait is not necessarily less common; it just doesn't express unless paired with the same gene.

Recessive Misconception

The concept of 'recessive' is fundamental to Mendel's laws of inheritance in biology.

Mendelian Inheritance

Indicates a tendency to yield or be overshadowed in social or psychological contexts.

Behavioral Inference

'Recessive' can describe someone's nature without implying it's bad; just not dominant.

Not Always Negative

Different cultures may view recessive behaviors positively or negatively, affecting interpretation.

Cultural Perceptions

 He called the yellow-colored trait the dominant one, because it was expressed in all the new seeds. Then he let the new yellow-seeded hybrid plants self-fertilize. And in this second generation, he got both yellow and green seeds, which meant the green trait had been hidden by the dominant yellow. He called this hidden trait the recessive trait.

How Mendel's pea plants...

 bear that has the rare recessive gene that's pure white and I thought if I could just get pictures of this really rare hard to find a loose of white bear then I can bring attention to this cause of trying to keep oil tankers out of this area it's such a beautiful pristine habitat now proposing that story was one

National Geographic...

 leopard it's actually a recessive gene now I'm just going to quickly show you what I mean by that so I'm going to just use the white board outside and just show you a quick genetics lesson so it's some people turn into genetics but basically if we just draw a square a

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 because nowadays, they're brown. The brown color variant is the genetically dominant form of plumage in this species, but historically, the recessive pale gray variant triumphed because of its selective advantage in helping these predators blend in.

Can wildlife adapt to...

 melanistic you are still the exact same species it just means that you are carrying the recessive gene for basically increasing your production of melanin or inhibiting it in some way that's how you have lice or white lions there leucistic lions

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 For blood types, the A and B alleles are both dominant, while O is recessive. So A and A gives you type A blood, while B and B gives you type B. If you inherit one of each, the resulting codominance will produce both A and B antigens,

Why do blood types...

 In contrast, a theory tries to provide the most logical explanation about why things happen as they do. A theory might invoke dominant and recessive genes to explain how brown-haired parents ended up with a red-headed child,

What’s the difference...

 I was diagnosed with a recessive genetic condition called hereditary inclusion body myopathy, or HIBM. It's a progressive muscle wasting disease that affects all of my muscles from head to toe. HIBM is very rare.

Cara E. Yar Khan: The...

 cheetah now this recessive gene causes this blotching along the cheetah not the prominent spots that you are used to seeing but look at that isn't it phenomenal now this is a very rare gene

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 let's use a microscope to zoom in on the inferior of those chromosomes, which is the Y chromosome. It's a third the size of the X. It's recessive and mutant. But hey, just a male.