Choose the true statement about mit DNA:
Ans. D. It codes for less than 20% of the proteins involved in respiratory chainIn ETC there are around 67 subunits, out it 13 proteins are coded by Mit DNA, which comes around 19%.Mitochondrial DNA has high mutation rate almost 5 to 10 times that of nuclear DNA.It has 16,569 bpMitochondrial DNA has maternal inheritance
Few mutation compared to nuclear DNA
It has 3x109 base pairs
It receives 23 chromosomes from each parent
It codes for less than 20% of the proteins involved in respiratory chain
Molecular Genetics