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Quotation from Experiments in Plant Hybridisation (in Bateson's Mendel's Principles of Heredity) by Gregor Mendel; William Bateson
“there is found, as between the number of forms with the dominant and recessive characters, an average ratio of 2·98 to 1, or 3 to 1.”
Experiments in Plant Hybridisation (in Bateson's Mendel's Principles of Heredity), Mendel, Experiments in Plant Hybridisation, The First Generation Bred from the Hybrids, trans. Royal Horticultural Society translation, rev. William Bateson
The summary of all seven experiments that established the 3 : 1 ratio.
Citation: "there is found, as between the number of forms with the dominant and recessive characters, an average ratio of 2·98 to 1, or 3 to 1." — Gregor Mendel; William Bateson, Experiments in Plant Hybridisation (in Bateson's Mendel's Principles of Heredity), Mendel, Experiments in Plant Hybridisation, The First Generation Bred from the Hybrids, trans. Royal Horticultural Society translation, rev. William Bateson. (id mendel-experiments-in-plant-hybridisation-q5)
Portrait: Gregor Mendel with cross, Unknown photographer, Public domain.
