The B locus in dogs controls whether the dog is liver. Liver is recessive (b), so a dog needs two copies of the allele in order to be liver. If a dog is bb on the B locus then any and all black in its coat will become a brownish colour. Bb and BB have no effect.
Micro: Mini, small, tiny. Micro is also a term used in the RTS Starcraft, as a term for modified unit control. Micro can also refer to the descriptions of micro-organisms. Micro as a unit of measurement is defined as: One millionth..
Summary. Micro and macro are derived from Greek language where micro means small and macro refers to large. These prefixes are used in many fields of study such as finance, economics, evolution etc. where we have words like micro finance and macro finance, micro evolution and macro evolution etc.