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4.Principles of Inheritance and Variation
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One of the parents of a cross has a mutation in its mitochondria. In that cross, that parent is taken as a male. During segregation of ${F_2}$ progenies that mutation is found in
A
All the progenies
B
Fifty percent of the progenies
C
One-third of the progenies
D
None of the progenies
(AIPMT-2004)
Solution
(d)Because mitochondrial genes also show maternal inheritance because all the mitochondria a zygote has come from the cytoplasm of the ovum.
Standard 12
Biology