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The movie, rated NC-17 for explicit sex, places its tortured hero in a stylized milieu of offices and clubs, as well as an austere apartment with dramatic views of lower Manhattan, and contrasts his emotional recessiveness with the frantic volatility of his self-destructive sister, Sissy; she's played brilliantly by Carey Mulligan.

'Shame': Tracking The Travails of Lost Souls Joe Morgenstern 2011

The only reason we know it's genetic is because it's a physical trait and is very easy to identify the pattern of recessiveness in blue eyed people.

"American taxpayers are funding a lavishly appointed hospital in which hundreds of child molesters and rapists can idle their days away." Ann Althouse 2009

This lesson should also build the idea that dominance and recessiveness are not properties of alleles in isolation, but properties of relationships between pairs of alleles.

How to teach about dominance Rosie Redfield 2007

This lesson should also build the idea that dominance and recessiveness are not properties of alleles in isolation, but properties of relationships between pairs of alleles.

Archive 2007-11-01 Rosie Redfield 2007

If two tall people got married, there would be a 50% chance to be as big or bigger than their children, depending on recessiveness of tallness.

OpEdNews - Diary: Bush Ain't No Pussy! 2006

He observed similar dominance of one gene form and recessiveness of the alternative gene form in other characters as well leading him to generalize the phenomenon as a law, the Law of Dominance.

The Genotype/Phenotype Distinction Lewontin, Richard 2004

But before taking it up it is as well to learn the real signification of recessiveness in the hybrids themselves.

Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891

And I'm definitely pleased that my children have such a deep curiosity about things - they already understand the concepts of inbreeding and outbreeding, and can talk about expressed and unexpressed traits, dominance and recessiveness.

ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Sharon Astyk none@example.com 2010

Though some may insist that it being recessive would slow down evolution by argument of Tae-Sachs disease, genetic drift and immunity to tuberculosis (a much more dangerous disease, especially during recent history), not recessiveness would cause that phenotype to stay in the population.

Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

Mendel coined the present day terms in genetics: recessiveness and dominance.

PALAEOBLOG 2009