Mitochondrial Inheritance: Genes That (Almost) Always Come Only from Mom

Lesson Summary

In this lesson, students compare standard Mendelian autosomal inheritance with mitochondrial inheritance. To demonstrate their understanding, students will analyze exceptions to known rules of inheritance and explore how medical and scientific discovery fine tunes our understanding of inheritance.

Upon completion of this lesson, students will be able to: 

• model the patterns of inheritance of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA.

• compare and contrast the patterns of inheritance in these models. 

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