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of Segregation. The second law of JNIendel may be 

 called the Law of Free Assortment of different 

 character pairs. A character from one organism can, 

 as it were, be transferred to a different organism. 

 The numerical results obtained, when two pairs 



Fig, 24. — Diagram to show cross between a round-yellow 

 and a green-wrinkled pea. 



of characters are, as here, involved in the same cross, 

 may be accounted for as follows. The element for 

 green color may be represented by g and its con- 

 trasted color vellow by G, and the element for 

 wrinkled by w and its contrasted character smooth 

 by W. The egg of the yellow round parent pea is 

 GW and the pollen of the green wrinkled pea is 

 gw. The fertilized egg, that becomes the hybrid 



