homozygous recessive

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adjective

Pertaining to a genetic condition where an individual has inherited two identical, non-dominant alleles for a specific trait, one from each parent.

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In one quarter of their offspring, we would expect to observe individuals that are homozygous recessive for the nonfunctional allele.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

You would expect 200 homozygous dominant blue flowers, 400 heterozygous blue flowers, and 200 homozygous recessive red flowers.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

Thesaurus

Possible Synonyms

pure recessive
expressing a recessive trait
aa genotype
lacking a dominant allele

Possible Antonyms

possessing at least one dominant allele
homozygous dominant
Aa or AA genotype
expressing a dominant trait
heterozygous