One of the parents of a cross has mutation in its mitochondria.In that cross;that parent is taken as

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One of the parents of a cross has mutation in its mitochondria.In that cross;that parent is taken as a male. During segregation of F2 progenies that mutation is found in

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It is the female reproductive cell which unually carrie more cytoplasm and cytoplasmic or ganelles than the male cell and hence, naturally would be expected to influence non-Mendelian traits. Since in the present case the male parent (not female) had mutation in mitochondria, there are negligible chances of the mutation being inherited.

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