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.
Another way to define a recessive trait is one that is never expressed by the heterozygous genotype. For example, the heterozygous genotype for earlobe type (Ee) produces detached earlobes because the dominant allele (E) hides the effects of the recessive allele (e).ecessive traits are those that are expressed or seen only when a homozygous recessive genotype is present. Homozygous recessive just means having two of the same recessive alleles. Remember, recessive alleles are masked by dominant alleles.