MENDEL'S LAW.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 397, 5 January 1909, Page 2

MENDEL'S LAW.

\l '- ;:':L: :iSir'.SOTsNl)p::.L'.l::l.2:.:i;:/-' ' In spite 'of the.-intricacy of Mondel's i»y; ..-' tere'sting law of, heredity, a'writer:in''the .;.,;• "Fanner and Stockbreeder" (England) hsiaj . ; been bold enough: to challenge! jt. ; -~lt Has. .;;. not quite, settled down to the .belief; that ijn. ■.-.■-,■ such-'-an''.unstable*, thing ; as stockbreedinj;, -. -. .with the itlttti%eraWe;.-influenCes ;: .surroundingv-.:-. it, a common law cdyid>be v laid'dowii;.. Men-; .;/-". : del's. beliefs, -says ■.the> : :r'|Fanner, J V.-,:Wera : p.-.. founded on his'observations. in : gardeii; ; ?weet" •:■;: : :jxa, culture, where there-is probably/fee yari-v.. : ". ', .atiOK-.than'.' in>' other.; fonnsr,,o£'' ■'plant . : ,7..-. . .ljfej n6t j to ■speak' ofrithe.'-infinite! vanety\<ii£;c.>i. "forms of animal life. . The ,thepryi thsif;.cfe.;i~ ' itain potentialities maj;.be_attributed to -the : : . ' 'dominant "and others. to"the elscessiveTprogeny : :iß~dlearly out of/.keeping,\-acdording(to v vthis , .authority, -with : the results' ' obtaiiied. -in 'swede turnip crossing.';-Here; the recessives .;. : produced ■; extreme/: variation of ~a •consider"..... a'ble period, whilst "the dominant types'were 'the'.first to.-,show % constancy. and-'charapteri/' A' swede .turnip will'..never; sport-a ; '..white— .;, ■: ije.; the swede types-will never.spo'r,t'mo.re ■■■.. \than-.':half.: swede■;half; white— . v "... ' -type.will.sport/in any way,,these:Keing.;r.?; ;; . qessive. This is an .inversion of MendeVs , ...-,- theory. ■ Again, iri-.,whe.at-grdwjng,;r"plants';;., should be constant in .the third;-year, yet. .L' ,': they are not. '• In of, cerealfi. there. ■■-•; appeared to ; be no - governing; law, - for' they. : : behaved like ■ Nature' in : her most teportiye . ": ' mood.r . :; ■:*•—:.-.■ '■ ■;•-' ;■ •■'-'." •■■ i'^V , ; ; ■■•:'V-'- '"'■"