CONCLUSIONS 211 



characters, although they are really racial characters, only 

 appear in the presence of one or other class of gamete, has 

 led to the assumption that the individual or Mendelian 

 characters are similar to or identical with them. Lastly, the 

 distribution of the chromosomes to the gametes and their 

 recombination at fertilisation, provides a mechanism for the 

 alternative distribution of sex-producing or sex-controlling 

 entities, just as in the case of individual characters. 



