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A shell of a calliostomatid snail, showing dextral shell coiling.

(SOURCE: SHUTTERSTOCK).

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EXTRANUCLEAR INHERITANCE

CONCEPT OUTLINE

The Criteria of Extranuclear Inheritance

Maternal Effects

■ Pigmentation in Ephestia

■ Shell coiling in snail

■ Embryonic development in Drosophila

■ Male sterility in plants

Infectious Heredity

■ Kappa in Paramecium

■ Infective particle in Drosophila

■ Sex ratio element

Organeller Heredity

■ Heredity symbiosis

Chloroplast Mutants

■ Shades of colour in leaves of Mirabilis

■ Drug resistance in Chlamydomonas

Mitochondrial inheritance

■ Respiratory deficiency in yeast

■ Poky mutant in Neurospora

Organization of Cytoplasmic ...

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