What is meant by cytoplasmic inheritance ?

Explanation

Certain characters are controlled by non - nucleas genomes found in chloroplast, Mitochondira, infective agents and plasmids, and do not reveal Mendelian pattern of Inheritance. This is called as extra chromosomal inheritance. They exhibit maternal influence in their pattern of inheritance. Eg. Inheritance of the shell coiling pattern in fresh water snail Limnaea peregra.