Title: Domesticated animals and plants; a brief treatise upon the origin and development of domesticated races, with special reference to the methods of improvement
Identifier: domesticatedan00dave (find matches)
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Davenport, E. (Eugene), 1856-1941
Subjects: Breeding; Domestic animals; Plants, Cultivated; Animals, Domestic; Breeding; Plants
Publisher: Boston, New York : Ginn and company
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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HOW CHARACTERS BEHAVE 149 more characters are involved the groups may, by patience, be separated and new races estabUshed that will breed pure. The greatest difficulty arises in separating for the dominant char- acters, but the test is in the descendants. It will be noted too, in this connection, that in these new races an absolutely new association of characters is often brought
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Fig. 26. A dark smooth parent and an albino rough parent. Below is their dark rough offspring, and at the bottom one of the types that appeared in the grand- children (see text), a new type associating the short coat and the white color. — After Castle, 1905, Publication 2j, Carnegie Institution, Washington, D.C. about as when the white color and the smooth coat have been brought together from two different sources. In this way new races that will breed true may be got out of a mixture whether the characters blend or not. Very few individuals pure. What has just been said has reference to characters and not to individuals. As will be seen below, it is a difficult task to find an individual that is

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