The ratio T= I/I 0 is called transmission.

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A mitochondrion divides by developing a ring around the organelle that constricts to pinch it into two halves. The mechanism is similar in principle to that involved in bacterial division.

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The apparatus that is used in plant cell mitochondria is similar to that used in bacteria and uses a homolog of the bacterial protein FtsZ. 

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The molecular apparatus is different in animal cell mitochondria and uses the protein dynamin, which is involved in formation of membranous vesicles

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The assignment of mitochondria to daughter cells at mitosis also appears to be random. Indeed, it was the observation of somatic variation in plants that first suggested the existence

of genes that could be lost from one of the daughter cells because they were not inherited according to Mendel's laws.

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In some situations a mitochondrion has both paternal and maternal alleles. This has two requirements: that both parents provide alleles to the zygote (which of course is not the

case when there is maternal inheritance.

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Mitochondrial DNA replicates by increasing the number of genomes in proportion to mitochondrial mass, but without ensuring that each genome replicates

the same number of times.