Hormones and Heredity by J. T. Cunningham
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_F1 grossulariata_[female] it produced all the [male]'s _grossulariata_
and all the [female]'s _lacticolor_. Bateson's explanation is that the female, according to the Mendelian theory of sex, is heterozygous in sex, the male homozygous and recessive, and that _lacticolor_ is linked with the female sex-character, _grossulariata_ being repelled by that character. Thus we have, the _lacticolor_ character being recessive, lact. male, LL male male x F, gross. female, GL female male Gametes L male + L male x G male + L female _____________________|______________________ | | GL male male LL male female gross. male lact. female It will be seen that although in the progeny of this mating all the _grossulariata_ were males and all the _lacticolor_ females, yet this case is by no means similar to that of sexual dimorphism in which the characters are normally always confined to the same sex. For the _lacticolor_ character in the parent was in the male, while in the offspring it was in the female. We cannot say here that in the theoretical factors which are supposed to represent what happens, the _lacticolor_ character is coupled with the female sex-factor, for we find it with the male sex-character in the _lacticolor_ [male]. It is so coupled only in the heterozygous _grossulariata_ [female], and at the same time the _grossulariata_ character is repelled. According to Doncaster [Footnote: _Determination of Sex_, Camb. Univ. Press, 1914.] sex-limited, or as it is now proposed to call it sex-linked, transmission in this case means that the female _grossulariata_ transmits the character to all her male offspring and to none of the female, while a |
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