Re: RE:Hyb: Cytoplasmic inheritance

Pollen and sperm are much smaller than egg cells.  So they carry no cytoplasm to speak of.  But instances of pollen, at least, carrying chloroplasts to the embryo are not unknown.  But I am not aware of it ever happening in animals.  but then I don't read the animal litterature as much as the plant litterature.
It is not unknown for a family to adopt a father's child by another woman.  This mostly happened where a father has absolute control over what the family does.  And maybe under that Czar such was the case.
But the percentage given seems really high to me.
Walter

Oneofcultivars@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 2/2/2005 5:41:27 PM Central Standard Time, 
irischapman@netscape.net writes:


> So if mitochondria comes only from the mother how does this happen, 2 
> sets that is.

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