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When a certain character is inherited only through female parent, it probably represents

1. multiple plastid inheritance
2. cytoplasmic inheritance
3. incomplete dominance
4. mendelian nuclear inheritance

Correct answer: cytoplasmic inheritance

Solution

Traits inherited only through the female parent usually come from mitochondria or chloroplasts, which are passed mainly via the egg cytoplasm. That pattern is called cytoplasmic inheritance, not nuclear Mendelian inheritance.

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