These traits included flower color, seed color, seed structure, pod color, pod shape, flower position, and l height of the plant. It began with a parent who was homozygous for both recessive and dominant traits. He then went through the filial generation to create the filial generation of two. He found that the results for each trait were always similar to the expected ratio of 3:1. After seeing the characteristics transmitted by the F2 generation he concluded that the ratio was not 3:1, but 1:2:1. This leads to its principle of segregation. This principle stated that traits did not have a combined form of each trait, but instead distinctly represented the dominant or recessive one. Its ratio of 3:1 was then known as Mendelian