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patency of the latent allelomorph) ; and (5) that in a very 

 great number of cases (i.e. in pure-bred varieties) it has been 

 actually proved that pure dominants and recessives carry the 

 alternative unit in a latent condition. Moreover, the analogy of 

 the sexual characters points clearly to latency rather than to 

 segregation. 



