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.
homozygous means you have two alleles with the same characteristic. example; two alleles for brown eyes. recessive means that when you have two different alleles, one of then doesn't show its trait. example; one allele for brown eyes and one allele for green eyes gives brown eyes, because green eyes are recessive. people who have green eyes have homozygous recessive alleles for green eyes (two alleles for green eyes).