A person must be at least 18 years old to be appointed to the Senate and must be at least 30 to be President or Vice-President of the Senate. As only members of the House of Representatives are eligible to be appointed Prime Minister, the Prime Minister must be at least 18 years old.
â¢ RECESSIVE (adjective). The adjective RECESSIVE has 2 senses: 1. of or pertaining to a recession. 2. (of genes) producing its characteristic phenotype only when its allele is identical. Familiarity information: RECESSIVE used as an adjective is rare. RECESSIVE (noun). The noun RECESSIVE has 1 sense: 1. an allele that produces its characteristic phenotype only when its paired allele is identical. Familiarity information: RECESSIVE used as a noun is very rare.
The term for a genotype in which there is a dominant allele and a recessive one heterozygous The term for a genotype in which there are two recessive alleles.ecessive allele The percentage of offspring with a recessive trait if both parents are heterozygous dominant 25% The percentage of offspring with the dominant phenotype if one parent is homozygous domninate and the other parent is heterozygous dominant.