THEORY OF EVOLUTION 53 



round. There has been a recombination of char- 

 acters, while at the same time the results, for 

 each pair of characters taken separately, are in 



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9 



1 



Fig. 2\. Cross l)etH-een yellow-round and green-wrinkled 

 peas, giving the 9: 3: 3; 1 ratio in F.,. 



accord with JMendel's Law of Segregation, 

 (fig. 22). The second law of Mendel maj' be 

 called the law of independent assortment of 

 different character jjairs. 



We can, as it were, take the characters of 

 one organism and recombine them ^vitli those 



