INHERITANCE— IMP RO I 'EMENT /! ) ' hREEMNG \ 65 



male parent," is shown by the fact that if the process is re- CHAP, 

 versed, i.e. if we make the reciprocal cross by taking the pollen V ' 

 from the wrinkled sugar-maize, this being then the male 



Fig. 72. — Dominance ot one character from each parent, after crossing. 

 A and B, parental ears of Arcadia Sugar-maize. A, White Flint ; B, Black Sugar; 

 C, Black Flint (F 1 seed generation from cross A 5 x B J 1 ). 



parent, the result is just the same as in the case of the direct 

 cross, i.e. the resulting (the first or Fj grain is round and 



