What is a recessive gene?
A recessive gene is an allele that often offers little to no phenotypic effect, and it is almost always used in as a relative term to another allele termed the “dominant” allele. The most important thing to note when dealing with recessive genes is that they only fully “show” the traits they encode when the owner has only that gene. If it is paired with a dominant gene, then the phenotypic trait of the organism will always be the one that the dominant gene encodes for.
