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Quotation from Experiments in Plant Hybridisation (in Bateson's Mendel's Principles of Heredity) by Gregor Mendel; William Bateson
“The expression “recessive” has been chosen because the characters thereby designated withdraw or entirely disappear in the hybrids, but nevertheless reappear unchanged in their progeny”
Experiments in Plant Hybridisation (in Bateson's Mendel's Principles of Heredity), Mendel, Experiments in Plant Hybridisation, The Forms of the Hybrids, trans. Royal Horticultural Society translation, rev. William Bateson
Mendel introduces the terms dominant and recessive.
Citation: "The expression “recessive” has been chosen because the characters thereby designated withdraw or entirely disappear in the hybrids, but nevertheless reappear unchanged in their progeny" — Gregor Mendel; William Bateson, Experiments in Plant Hybridisation (in Bateson's Mendel's Principles of Heredity), Mendel, Experiments in Plant Hybridisation, The Forms of the Hybrids, trans. Royal Horticultural Society translation, rev. William Bateson. (id mendel-experiments-in-plant-hybridisation-q4)
Portrait: Gregor Mendel with cross, Unknown photographer, Public domain.
