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THE INHERITANCE OF FECUNDITY

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which carry the excess production factor $L_{2}$ are heterozygous in respect to it.

We have fecundity practically determined, then, by two physiological factors, one of which is sex-correlated in its inheritance and the ether not.

Table II

Showing Some Results of Mating Together Barred Plymouth Bock Males and Barred Plymouth Rock Females of Different Fecundity Genotypes.
Summarized Data^[1]

The accordance between observed fact and theoretical expectation on this interpretation of the results is shown in the following tables

↑ The records of 1/2 refer to birds whose winter production record was exactly 30 eggs. Each one of the few birds of this sort is divided between the "Over 30" and the "Under 30" classes.

[1] The records of 1/2 refer to birds whose winter production record was exactly 30 eggs. Each one of the few birds of this sort is divided between the "Over 30" and the "Under 30" classes.

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