Combined Science GCSE

recessive

What recessive means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.

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Describes an allele whose characteristic is only expressed in the phenotype when two copies are present, because a dominant allele masks it in a heterozygote.

AQA · Genetic inheritance (study guide)

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