Liberal Studies Competency 3: Analyze and interpret research using appropriate methods. When Bateson \& Punnet tried to replicate the results of Mendel's dihybrid cross, they happened to choose two linked traits. For this reason, in their F2 generation, they observed: only offspring with the same trait combinations as the parents only offspring with different trait combinations than the parents roughly equal numbers of offspring with each of the four possible trait combinations more offspring with the trait combinations seen in the parents than other combinations.