How does maternal inheritance work?
The nucleus of the cell carries the genome of the cell, the gene that is transmitted from the nucleus is called nuclear inheritance. Inheritance is the transmission of the gene from one generation to the next generation. The organism having a diploid set of genome passes one set of their chromosomes to their offspring: each from one parent, mother, and father. The transmission of the gene that is situated outside the nucleus (in the cytoplasm) is cytoplasmic inheritance. Cytoplasmic inheritance is a non-Mendelian inheritance. The cell organelles such as mitochondria and chloroplast undergo cytoplasmic inheritance.
In cytoplasmic inheritance, genes always pass from the mother to the offspring showing maternal inheritance.
Step by step
Solved in 2 steps
