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1

A muscle biopsy shows 'moth-eaten' fibers. Which histochemical finding would confirm mitochondrial myopathy?

ARagged red fibers on MGT

BType 1 fiber predominance

CRimmed vacuoles

DNemaline rods

2

Mark the false statement regarding mitochondrial DNA:

AAGA and AGG are stop codons in mitochondrial DNA

BKearns-Sayre Syndrome is a large deletion in mitochondrial DNA

CDoes not show heteroplasmy

D1% of cellular DNA, 13 proteins of respiratory chain

3

Mitochondrial DNA inheritance is transmitted from:

AFather

BGrandmother

CGrandfather

DMother

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