| dominant character | An inherited character determined by one kind of allele. See: phenotype. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| acquired character | A character developed in a plant or animal as a result of environmental influences during the individual's life. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| autosomal dominant | <genetics> Requires only one affected parent have the trait to pass it to offspring. (02 Jan 1998) |
| genes, dominant | Genes that are reflected in the phenotype both in the homozygous and the heterozygous state. (12 Dec 1998) |
| recessive character | An inherited character determined by an allele in homozygous state only. See: dominance of traits. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mendelian character | An inherited character under the control of a single locus (although perhaps modified by genes at other loci). (05 Mar 2000) |
| character | In current usage, approximately equivalent to personality. The sum of the relatively fixed personality traits and habitual modes of response of an individual. (12 Dec 1998) |
| character analysis | Analysis of the defenses and personality traits that characterise an individual. (05 Mar 2000) |
| character armor | A habitual pattern of organised defenses against anxiety. (05 Mar 2000) |
| character disorder | A term referring to a group of behavioural disorder's, now replaced by a more general term, personality disorder, of which character disorder's are now a subclass. (05 Mar 2000) |
| character neurosis | A subclass of personality disorders. (05 Mar 2000) |
| permanent dominant idea | An exaggerated notion, belief, or delusion that persists, despite evidence to the contrary, and controls the mind, the obstinate conviction of a psychotic person regarding the correctness of his delusion. Synonym: idee fixe, overvalued idea, permanent dominant idea. (05 Mar 2000) |
| classifiable character | A character that allows individuals to be sorted into distinct but not quantitative classes, e.g., blood types. (05 Mar 2000) |
| compound character | An inherited character dependent upon two or more distinct genes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sex-linked character | An inherited character determined by a gene on a gonosome. See: gene. (05 Mar 2000) |
| denumerable character | Classifiable character that is also countable (e.g., number of progeny, number of teeth). Synonym: discrete character. (05 Mar 2000) |