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plant. If these meetings are random, the general or 

 average outcome will be : 1 pure yellow, 2 hybrid 

 yellows, and 1 pure green. 



It is now apparent why the pure yellows will always 

 breed true, why the yellow-greens will split again into 

 yellows and greens (or 1:2:1), and why the pure 

 greens breed true. By this extremely simple assump- 

 tion the entire outcome finds a rational explanation. 



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Fig. 43. — " Checker " diagram to show segregation and recombination of 

 factors. In upper Kne, a black bearing gamete is supposed to unite with a 

 white bearing gamete to give the zygotes shown in F\, each of which is 

 heterozygous for black-white here represented as allelomorphs, etc. 



The same scheme may be represented by means of 

 the above ''checker" diagram (Fig. 43). Black crossed 

 to white gives hybrid black, /^i, whose germ-cells are 

 black or white after segregation. The possible com- 

 bination of these on random meeting at the time of 

 fertilization is shown by the arrows in F\ and the results 

 are shown in the line marked F^. There will be one 

 pure black, to two black-and-whites, to one pure white. 



