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because the dominant form does not exist — or, 

 rather, gets no nearer maturity than the seedling 

 stage. 



The general trend of the evidence seems to be 

 that the Mendelian mode of inheritance originated 

 from — or, at any rate, in close connection with — that 

 by which sexual characters are inherited. At any 

 rate, the similarity between the two modes is very 

 close. 



