1. The kind of mating, using as one parent a known homozygous recessive, is called a test cross. 这种杂交即利用一个已知的纯合的隐性作为一个亲本的杂交，称为测交。
2. Media power is the basis of information dissemination and a recessive power of social control. 媒介权力是新闻信息传播的基础和隐性的社会控制力量。
3. Most plants carry a large "genetic load" for deleterious recessive genes of which a few are homozygous and depress growth. 多数植物带有大量有害的隐性基因的“遗传负荷”，其中少数是纯合的，因而降低了生长。
英英解释
n.
1. an allele that produces its characteristic phenotype only when its paired allele is identical
2. of or pertaining to a recession
3. (of genes) producing its characteristic phenotype only when its allele is identical
