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Manipal Medical Manipal Medical Solved Paper-2014

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    One of the parents of a cross has mutation in       its mitochondria. In that cross, the parent is taken as male. During segregation of \[{{F}_{2}}\] progenies that mutation is found in              

    A) one third of progenies

    B) None of the progenies     

    C) All of the progenies 

    D) half of the progenies     

    Correct Answer: B

    Solution :

    It is the female reproductive cell which usually carries more cytoplasm and cytoptasmic organelles than the male cell and hence naturally would be expected to influence non-Mendelian traits. But in present given case, the male parent had mutation in mitochondria, there are negligible chances of mutation being inherited.


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