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.
Alleles can be dominant or recessive. A dominant allele is always expressed while the recessive allele is expressed when only dominant allele is absent. If two alleles present in the organism that are identical, then it is called â Homozygous â, while if two alleles are different, and then called â Heterozygous â.ecessive Allele. From the two alleles, the weaker one is known as recessive allele. This recessive allele is expressed only in the case of homozygous. In the case of heterozygous, the dominant allele masks the phenotype of the recessive allele.