Principle Of Inheritance And Variation Question 610

Question: 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 progenies that mutation is found in [CBSE PMT 2004]

Options:

A) All the progenies

B) Fifty percent of the progenies

C) One-third of the progenies

D) None of the progenies

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Answer:

Correct Answer: D

Solution:

Because mitochondrial genes also show maternal inheritance because all the mitochondria a zygote has come from the cytoplasm of the ovum.