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Keywords: Chloroplasts, Mitochondria, Phenotype, Gamete, Inherited

Related Terms: Allele, Dominant, Genotype, Hereditary, Heredity, Heritable, Mendelian, Mutagenesis, Recessive, Heterozygote, X-Linked, Heterozygous, Homozygous, Genetic Variation, Dominant Inheritance, Alleles, Mendelian Inheritance, Sex-Linked, Autosomal Dominant, Mutant, Homozygote, Genetic Linkage, Autosomal Dominant Inheritance, Autosomal Recessive Inheritance, Polygenic Inheritance, Autosomal Recessive, Somatic Mutation, Recessive Inheritance, Recessive Gene, Dominant Allele, Dominant Gene, Cytoplasmic Inheritance, Null Allele, Recessive Allele, Germline Mutation, Polygenic, Germline Mosaicism, Loss Of Heterozygosity, Complementation, Homozygosity, Polygene, Hereditary Mutation, Sex Linkage, Haploinsufficiency, Monogenic, Sex-Linked Inheritance, Somatic Mutations, Hemizygous, Single Gene Disorder, Complex Trait

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Inheritance in which the phenotype of the offspring depends on factors, such as mitochondria or chloroplasts, that are inherited from the female parent through the cytoplasm of the female gamete.

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inheritance of genes in organelles, such as mitochondria and chloroplasts,from the female parent.

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the inheritance of a trait from the female gamete.

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Genes are passed from one generation to the next through the mother. Mitochondrial genes demonstrate this pattern of maternal inheritance.

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A type of uniparental inheritance in which all progeny have the genotype and phenotype of the parent acting as the female.

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Genes transmitted to the next generation via ovum and not pollen.

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