Relations Between Genes II

Abstract

Among the most important conclusions derived from Mendel’s own investigations, first place is held by the law relating to the behaviour of the different factors with respect to the ratio they bear to one another in the segregation process. As we have already seen in chapter V, Mendel believed that the factors behave absolutely independently, that is to say, as independent units. “Hence it follows that the behaviour of every two different characteristics united in a hybrid is independent of remaining differences existing in both parental plants’ (1865, p. 20).