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bearing. Chance combinations at fertilization give the three classes of individuals of the second generation.

Fig. 14. Diagram illustrating the history of the factors in the germ cells of the cross shown in Fig. 13.

The white flowering plants should forever breed true, as in fact they do. The red flowering plants also breed true. The pink flowering plants, having the same composition as the hybrids of the first generation, should give the same kind of result. They do, indeed, give this result i.e. one white to two pink to one red flowered offspring.