Some Laws of Heredity 



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tion), Mendel designated it as the dominant 

 character, whUe the character that temporarily 

 recedes from view he called the recessive. 

 When, then, two plants are crossed differing in 

 only one particular, the children manifest only 

 the dominant character; but the grandchildren 



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Note tliat tlie greater the numbers involved in any experiment the closer 

 the approximation to a ratio of 3:1. 



(Fj generation) are of the two types again 

 and in the proportion of three dominants to 

 one recessive. This does not mean that if, 

 in the example first cited above, you should 

 find four peas in a pod in the F^ generation 

 three would be yellow and one green, but it 

 does mean that out of 4,000 peas of the 

 second generation close on to 3,000 would be 

 yellow and 1,000 green. Darbishire repeated 



