Page:A critique of the theory of evolution.djvu/62

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page needs to be proofread.

(fig. 18) is the same in principle as in the preceding cases. The only difference between them is that the hybrid which contains both the yellow and the green factors is in appearance not intermediate, but like the yellow parent stock. Yellow is said therefore to be dominant and green to be recessive.

Fig. 18. Diagram illustrating the history of the factors in the cross shown in Fig. 17.

Another example where one of the contrasted characters is dominant is shown by the cross of Drosophila with vestigial wings to the wild type with long wings (fig. 19). The F1 flies have long wings not differing from those of the wild fly, so far as can be observed. When two such flies are inbred there result three long to one vestigial.