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the dominant character. Now, in the latter theory 

 the recessive character is nothing ; there is no 

 difference, according to it, between the absence of 

 fasciation and the absence of greyness of seed-coat — 

 a point which deserves careful consideration. And 

 one way of attacking the question of the relative 

 truth of the two theories is to find out if the recessive 

 members of, say, Mendel's seven characters are 

 identical, or if they do not each manifest something 

 corresponding to their dominant counterpart. 



