"Bristlelike" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... if singleness really underlies rose, to obtain some single combs in F2 from such a cross. Such a comb we had the good fortune to find in the Breda fowl, a breed largely used in Holland. This fowl is usually spoken of as combless, for the place of the comb is taken by a covering of short bristlelike feathers (Fig. 6, D). In reality it possesses the vestige of a comb in the form of two minute lateral knobs of comb tissue. Characteristic also of this breed is the high development of the horny nostrils, a feature probably correlated with the ...
— Mendelism - Third Edition • Reginald Crundall Punnett |
