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A few matings of hooded rats which show the existence of a gene, 

 which is present in dark-hooded and absent from light-hooded animals. 

 Light-hooded children from dark-hooded parents (e.g. 44 and 50, from 47 

 and 3) give no dark-hooded offspring. Dark-hooded may be homozygoiH 

 or heterozygous for the gene. 



Young rats which Eire parents in any of the later matings shown, have 

 been given a distinguishing mark to facilitate finding their pedigree. 



There happened to be in our hooded-rats animals with, and 

 others without one gene. The presence or absence of whidi, 

 exerted a marked influence on the extent of the pigmented 



