EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF INHERITANCE 



character and the recession of another. Self-fertilisation (the 

 extreme of inbreeding) of the hybrids results in a number of pure 

 recessives and a number of dominants in the proportion 1:3; 

 some of these dominants (one-third) are pure, and produce only 

 dominants ; some (two-thirds) are apparently pure, but produce 

 dominants and recessives in the old proportion, 3:1. 



A Case of Mice. Let us take a concrete case from among 

 animals. A grey house-mouse is crossed with a white mouse ; 

 the offspring are all grey. Greyness is dominant ; albinism is 

 recessive. 



The grey hybrids are inbred ; their offspring are grey and white 

 in the proportion 3:1. If these whites are inbred they show 

 themselves " pure/' for they produce whites only for subsequent 

 generations. But when the greys are inbred they show them- 

 selves of two kinds, for one- third of them produce only greys, 

 which go on producing greys; while the other two-thirds, ap- 

 parently the same, produce both greys and whites. And so it 

 goes on. 



(P 1 ) 



(F 1 ) 



G(W) 



i G 



2G(W) 



I W 



(F 2 ) 



i G 



2G(W) 



i W 



W 



(F 3 ) 



Summary. In his exceedingly clear exposition of Mendelism 

 (1905) Mr. R. C. Punnett states the result thus : " Wherever 

 there occurs a pair of differentiating characters, of which one is 

 dominant to the other, three possibilities exist : there are 

 recessives which always breed true to the recessive character ; 



