Direction of shell coiling in the snail Lymnaea peregra is conditioned by a form of extrachromosomal inheritance known as ________

A) independent assortment
B) sex-linked inheritance
C) maternal effect
D) heteroplasmy
E) epistasis


Answer: C

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