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The mild-eyed actor Ryan Reynolds is perhaps too recessive for starring roles in the movies.
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Such stealth traits are readily handled by classic genetics--in the form of recessive genes.
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But far from being economically recessive as they are now, these countries grew by leaps and bounds.
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As a consequence, France is going through an entrepreneurial brain-drain that has recessive effects on its economy.
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Though he is black (the gene that causes albinism is a recessive gene), he too is vulnerable.
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Red-green colorblindness is far more common in men than women because it's a recessive gene carried on the X chromosome.
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They can be born to tawny-coloured parents when both the mother and father carry the recessive gene that causes the white fur.
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Motahari had a sour expression, recessive and thin-lipped, beneath a dark brow.
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He was born with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, a terminal genetic condition in which persistent skin problems lead to crippling deformities and, eventually, skin cancer.
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Roughly 1 in 45 healthy Americans are carriers of the recessive trait, meaning they are missing one of the normal two copies of the gene.
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The analogy is useful because real-life recessive genes, such as those for eye color, hair color and other traits, follow this same set of rules.
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In this movie, he is modest, quiet, even rather recessive.
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Mr. LINNELL: Ira, I have to say we've been on a million radio shows and the reference with which you show the length and ending of a song is truly a recessive trait in deejays, hosts, radio people.
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