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Extranuclear Inheritance
Chapter Concepts
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Concepts
- Organelle heredity involves DNA in chloroplasts and mitochondria
- Knowledge of mitochondrial and chloroplast DNA helps explain organelle heredity
- Mutations in mitochondrial DNA cause human disorders
- Infectious heredity is based on a symbiotic relationship between host organism and invader
- In maternal effect, the maternal genotype has a strong influence during early development
- Genomic imprinting cause nuclear genes to exhibit uniparental inheritance
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