In a review of some features of the inheritance of genes in mitochondria and chloroplasts, this paper notes that candidates for general laws of organelle genetics are beginning to emerge, including uniparental inheritance and vegetative segregation. Some progress has been made toward specifying the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying these and other phenomena.
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C. William Birky (1976) studied this question.
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