How to Use recessive in a Sentence

recessive

adjective

• But there was this recessive gene in the party that went through the Pat Buchanans and Sarah Palins.
  — New York Times, 17 Mar. 2022
• Well, that’s the only part of him that’s not recessive.
  — New York Times, 10 Jan. 2022
• Or would my blonde hair and blue eyes have snuck through some unknown recessive traits of his?
  — Jackie Bryant, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Sep. 2018
• Surely this is the most recessive self-portrait in the history of art.
  — Eric Gibson, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
• They're thought to be controlled by the same gene, but red hair is recessive, and freckles are a dominant trait.
  — Lauren Valenti, Marie Claire, 31 Mar. 2017
• It’s Bale, recessive behind a thick groomed beard, who remains at the center.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 Dec. 2022
• Lavin can make a joke out of a single inhalation, which turns out to be a good match for his more recessive sarcasm.
  — Vulture, 6 Nov. 2022
• But growing a pea like that would require finding a way to bring forward a rare recessive gene.
  — Norman Vanamee, Town & Country, 11 July 2019
• That blotchiness, though present in 80 percent of house cats today, is recessive, and seldom seen in the wild.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2017
• The recessive genes that cause the condition have been traced back to Maughlin Storm, a Canadian bull born in 1991 whose offspring have been used world-wide.
  — Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 28 May 2021
• And these combinations also suggest the game is playing with the idea of recessive genes.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 13 Apr. 2020
• Even when both parents carry the recessive mutation of the same gene, there’s still only a 1 in 4 chance they’ll be affected.
  — PEOPLE.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• The show as a whole presented an installation challenge that has been mostly met, but a lot of the images are small and recessive.
  — New York Times, 4 Feb. 2021
• Celia Falzone, the zoo curator, says both parents are normal colored, and the gene that turns a lion’s fur white is recessive.
  — Elaina Zachos, National Geographic, 21 July 2016
• Gantz bred a round of fruit flies that had been engineered to carry both the Crispr machinery and a single copy of a recessive gene for yellow coloration.
  — Jennifer Kahn, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2020
• Fine porcelain is also hand-painted with crosshatches, blurred so that the pattern here is recessive rather than assertive.
  — Joan Juliet Buck, ELLE Decor, 29 Aug. 2018
• As for coat colors, the test looks for variants in chocolate, dominant black, recessive black, fawn, recessive red, and widow’s peak (a blend of white and dark hair).
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2022
• In order to give birth to a king cheetah cub, both parents must be carriers of the recessive allele — hence their rarity.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2014
• But many more have a recessive gene that causes mostly white fur interspersed with bits of brown, the Local reported.
  — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., chicagotribune.com, 15 Aug. 2017
• The white tiger is produced by a genetic fluke that occurs when two orange tigers with rare recessive forms of a gene, called alleles, happen to breed.
  — Azzedine Downes, Scientific American, 22 June 2021
• Both parents carry a recessive gene for Pompe disease, which means there’s a 1 in 4 chance that a baby will inherit the condition.
  — Time, 10 Nov. 2022
• Basically, one tiny recessive gene keeps it from being a peach.
  — Catherine Lo, Good Housekeeping, 30 May 2019
• Without a powerful performance at its center — both Lawther and Wright are awkward and recessive — the cracks in Icke’s conception and craft gape wide.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 30 June 2022
• This explains the simple power of Punnett squares and the inheritance patterns of recessive traits.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 17 Sep. 2013
• Moose with bright white fur more commonly obtain this feature from a recessive gene that causes the animal to grow white with specks of brown—a condition referred to as piebald.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 14 Aug. 2017
• This makes sense, because the French Canadian population has long been known to have a somewhat high burden of recessive diseases.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2013
• That’s because a recessive gene (or genes) likely cause this color morph, as it’s called, and interbreeding with other black bears would soon overpower it.
  — Grant Currin, National Geographic, 24 July 2020
• Most of us carry recessive genes for various diseases inside our DNA.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2019
• What makes Orchid different is its test can check for complex diseases and not just recessive conditions.
  — John Cumbers, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• Gyllenhaal does yet another appealing, recessive turn as a sad-sack doctor who’s been up in space longer than anybody else.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 24 Mar. 2017

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