Gujarati
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

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