Nach der obigen Voraussetzung wäre jede von diesen hybriden Farbenverbindungen selbstständig und würde sich demnach ganz unabhängig von den übrigen entwickeln.
According to the above presupposition, each of these hybrid colour-conjunctions would be autonomous and would accordingly develop entirely independently of the others.
hybrid colour-conjunctions = hybride Farbenverbindungen See p. 10, s. 14.
autonomous = selbstständig; independently = unabhängig Bateson and Sherwood translate both terms as “independent” and “independently”, respectively. Mendel intends slightly different things, though. It is because a hybrid trait is “autonomous” (selbstständig; see p. 6, s. 1) that it develops “independently” (unabhängig) of other hybrid traits, i.e., that its development is not influenced by, or interferes with, the development of other hybrid traits.