Independently of the question of fertility, in all other respects there is the closest general resemblance between hybrids and mongrels, in their variability, in their power of absorbing each other by repeated crosses, and in their inheritance of characters from both parent-forms.
Antzutasun kontutik aparte, beste ikuspegi guztietan antz orokorrik handiena dute hibridoek eta mestizuek, aldagarritasunean, behin eta berriz gauzaturiko gurutzaketez elkar zurgatzeko ahalmenean eta guraso-forma bien ezaugarriak heredatzeko joeran.