{"id":5,"date":"2023-01-03T12:34:34","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T12:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.justwrite.in\/mitochondrial-inheritance\/?p=5"},"modified":"2023-03-03T15:15:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T15:15:55","slug":"chapter-1","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.justwrite.in\/mitochondrial-inheritance\/chapter\/chapter-1\/","title":{"raw":"Mitochondrial DNA","rendered":"Mitochondrial DNA"},"content":{"raw":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Mitochondrial DNA <\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A mitochondrion has multiple copies of its DNA and a typical cell has many mitochondria . As a result, cells usually have many copies \u2013 often thousands of mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondria DNA are randomly distributed to daughter cells during mitosis and meiosis.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The mitochondrial genome is distinct from the nuclear genome .The Mitochondrial DNA \u00a0contain genes that encodes 22 transfer RNAs, 13 messenger RNAs, and 2 ribosomal RNAs. Although mitochondrial genes encode some messenger RNA that will be translated to protein, these organelles require nuclear encoded genes to perform their function.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img src=\"http:\/\/pressbooks.justwrite.in\/mitochondrial-inheritance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/01\/Mitochondrial_DNA_lg.jpeg\" alt=\"Mitochondrial_DNA\" width=\"363\" height=\"406\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-78 \" \/><\/p>\r\n<i style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Above Image is from National Human Genome Research Institute, Public domain, via <a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/17\/Mitochondrial_DNA_lg.jpg\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/i>","rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Mitochondrial DNA <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A mitochondrion has multiple copies of its DNA and a typical cell has many mitochondria . As a result, cells usually have many copies \u2013 often thousands of mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondria DNA are randomly distributed to daughter cells during mitosis and meiosis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The mitochondrial genome is distinct from the nuclear genome .The Mitochondrial DNA \u00a0contain genes that encodes 22 transfer RNAs, 13 messenger RNAs, and 2 ribosomal RNAs. Although mitochondrial genes encode some messenger RNA that will be translated to protein, these organelles require nuclear encoded genes to perform their function.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pressbooks.justwrite.in\/mitochondrial-inheritance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/01\/Mitochondrial_DNA_lg.jpeg\" alt=\"Mitochondrial_DNA\" width=\"363\" height=\"406\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-78\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.justwrite.in\/mitochondrial-inheritance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/01\/Mitochondrial_DNA_lg.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/pressbooks.justwrite.in\/mitochondrial-inheritance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/01\/Mitochondrial_DNA_lg-268x300.jpeg 268w, https:\/\/pressbooks.justwrite.in\/mitochondrial-inheritance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/01\/Mitochondrial_DNA_lg-768x858.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pressbooks.justwrite.in\/mitochondrial-inheritance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/01\/Mitochondrial_DNA_lg-65x73.jpeg 65w, https:\/\/pressbooks.justwrite.in\/mitochondrial-inheritance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/01\/Mitochondrial_DNA_lg-225x251.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/pressbooks.justwrite.in\/mitochondrial-inheritance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/01\/Mitochondrial_DNA_lg-350x391.jpeg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Above Image is from National Human Genome Research Institute, Public domain, via <a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/17\/Mitochondrial_DNA_lg.jpg\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"Mitochondrial DNA","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":"cc-by-sa"},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[61],"license":[54],"class_list":["post-5","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-standard","contributor-malathi","license-cc-by-sa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"part":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.justwrite.in\/mitochondrial-inheritance\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.justwrite.in\/mitochondrial-inheritance\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.justwrite.in\/mitochondrial-inheritance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.justwrite.in\/mitochondrial-inheritance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.justwrite.in\/mitochondrial-inheritance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.justwrite.in\/mitochondrial-inheritance\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.justwrite.in\/mitochondrial-inheritance\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/5\/revisions\/210"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.justwrite.in\/mitochondrial-inheritance\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/3"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.justwrite.in\/mitochondrial-inheritance\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/5\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.justwrite.in\/mitochondrial-inheritance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.justwrite.in\/mitochondrial-inheritance\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.justwrite.in\/mitochondrial-inheritance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.justwrite.in\/mitochondrial-inheritance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}