Chapter 10:
Extranuclear Inheritance
Concepts
- Organelle heredity involves DNA in chloroplasts and
mitochondria
- 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 causes genes to exhibit uniparental
inheritance
