recessive character

He used test crosses to reveal the presence and proportion of recessive characters.

The proportion of plants showing the dominant as opposed to the recessive character was close to 3 to 1.

But when he crossed these hybrids with each other, the recessive character reappeared in the second (F2) generation.

He discovered dominant and recessive characters (genes) from the crosses he performed on the plants in his greenhouse.

Mediocrity, as every Mendelian knows, is a dominant character, and extraordinary ability is recessive character.

Early in her career she undertook collaborative research with William Bateson [q.v.]on plant-breeding experiments on Biscutella laevigata, the work involving a study of what came to be known as dominant and recessive characters.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times observed, "Jennifer Jason Leigh often plays women of brassy boldness . . . What is remarkable is how she can also play a recessive character such as Catherine so that every assertion seems like an act of courage."