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D$XR<*or R;XD<J . . . Parent-forms (P 1 ) 



D(R) 



. Hybrid-offspring (F 1 ) 



3.P 



i R . Generation of inbred hybrids (F) 



(Fs) 



carry with them the possibility of having offspring with the recessive 

 character; that is to say, the recessive character remains latent in 

 the inheritance. 



When these D(R)s are inbred (self -fertilised, in the case of peas) 

 they have offspring (F 2 ), some of which resemble the recessive parent, 

 while others resemble the dominant parent, and these occur in the 

 proportion of 1:3. When those resembling the recessive parent are 

 inbred, they breed true i.e., they give rise to a line of pure recessives. 

 Those resembling the dominant parent are all apparently alike, but 

 their subsequent history shows that they may be divided into a set 

 which breed true to the dominant type and a set which behave like the 

 first generation of hybrids i.e., they go on splitting up into dominant- 

 like forms and pure recessives. These two sets occur in the propor- 

 tions of 1:2. 



A case of peas. Let us consider a concrete case. Peas with 

 rounded seeds were crossed with peas having angular wrinkled seeds. 

 In the offspring the character of roundness was dominant; the angular 

 wrinkled character had disappeared or receded. It was not lost, as 

 the next generation showed. 



The hybrid offspring, all with rounded seeds, were allowed to self- 

 fertilise. In their progeny roundish seeds and angular wrinkled seeds 

 occurred in the proportions of 3:1. Here were the recessives again, 

 and when they were allowed to self-fertilise they produced pure reces- 

 sives only, with angular wrinkled seeds. 



