Or again, as when the horns of cross-bred cattle have been affected by the shape of the horns of either parent.
But to return to our comparison of mongrels and hybrids: Gartner states that mongrels are more liable than hybrids to revert to either parent-form; but this, if it be true, is certainly only a difference in degree.
But how it can raise the level beyond that attained by either parent is not obvious.
Here the reduction of the characters b, c, and e has led to the enhancement of a, which thus stands at a higher level than in either parent.
Although mules are not nearly so numerous in England as asses, I have seen a much greater number with striped legs, and with the stripes far more conspicuous than in either parent-form.
The attempt, however, will assuredly fail if the conditions of life be decidedly unfavourable to the characters of either parent-breed.
But to return to our comparison of mongrels and hybrids: Gartner states that mongrels are more liable than hybrids to revert to either parent form; but this, if it be true, is certainly only a difference in degree.
If either parent is in any way indisposed at the time of conception the results will be seen in the health of the child.
In fact, all physical weakness, if ingrafted in either parent, is transmitted from parents to offspring, and is often more strongly marked in the latter than in the former.
It is only by grasping the significance of this fact that we can understand how in certain cases a totally different set of characters may appear in an offspring than those manifested in either parent.
It is evident, then, that all that a child possesses at birth is not necessarily hereditary, since the unborn child may be influenced by conditions prevailing in either parent.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "either parent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
