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monohybrid proportion of 3 to 1 in dihybrid com- 

 binations is squared, (3 + I) 2 =16. 



It of course does not follow that the offspring in 

 dihybrid crosses will always be sixteen in number, or 

 that they will always conform strictly to the theoreti- 

 cal expectation of (3 + I) 2 . The offspring obtained 

 undoubtedly obey the laws of chance, but the greater 

 the number of offspring, the nearer they come to fall- 

 ing into the expected grouping. 



The sixteen possible zygotes resulting from a 

 dihybrid cross will give rise to sixteen possible kinds 

 of individuals which in turn, as will be demonstrated 

 directly, present four kinds of phenotypic and nine 

 kinds of genotypic constitutions. 



A dihybrid mating, using the same symbols em- 

 ployed in the case just described, would be expressed 

 algebraically as follows : 



SG+ WY+ SY+ $G = all the possible egg gametes 

 SG.+ WY+ SY+ W8 = all the possible sperm gametes 

 SQSG+ SGJ%Y+ SGJSY+ SGffG 



SQWY +WYWY+ &YSY+ WiYWG 



SGSY + WYSY +SYSY+ SYWg 



+ 8YWB+WGWG 

 SY 



SGSG+2 SGWY+2 SGSY+2 SGWG+WYWY+2 WYSY+ 2 $YWG+SySY+ 2SYWG+WGWO 



The second and the ninth items in this result are 

 alike ; f by combining' them the revised result reads": 



SGSG+1SGWY+2SGSY+2SGWG+WYWY+2 WYSY+2 WYWG+SYSY+WGWQ 



There are then these nine different combinations 

 of germinal characters or nine different genotypes 

 in any dihybrid cross. By placing the recessive char- 

 acters in parentheses, whenever the corresponding 

 dominant is present to indicate that the dominant 



