These characteristics included flower color, seed color, seed texture, pod color, pod shape, flower position and the height of the plant. It started with a homozygous parent exhibiting both recessive and dominant traits. It then passed through the filial generation to create filial generation two. He found that the results of each trait were always similar to the predicted ratio of 3:1. After seeing the characteristics passed down from the F2 generation, he concluded that the ratio was not 3:1, but rather 1:2:1. This led to its principle of segregation. This principle stated that traits did not have a combined form of each trait, but rather represented either the dominant or recessive distinctly. Its ratio of 3:1 was then known as Mendelian.