allele vs recessive allele

allele and recessive allele both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
allele	Yes	No	No	No
recessive allele	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, recessive allele is a hyponym of allele; that is, recessive allele is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than allele:

allele: (genetics) either of a pair (or series) of alternative forms of a gene that can occupy the same locus on a particular chromosome and that control the same character
recessive allele: an allele that produces its characteristic phenotype only when its paired allele is identical

Other hyponyms of allele include dominant, dominant allele, recessive.

allele (noun)	recessive allele (noun)
(genetics) either of a pair (or series) of alternative forms of a gene that can occupy the same locus on a particular chromosome and that control the same character	an allele that produces its characteristic phenotype only when its paired allele is identical

allele vs recessive allele

allele and recessive allele both are nouns.

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