A plant has green leaves with multiple yellow spots. When used as an egg donor in a cross with a normal plant that has all green leaves, some of the progeny have green and yellow leaves and some have all green leaves. When used as the pollen donor in a cross with a normal plant, all the progeny have all green leaves. Which of the following statements explain(s) the result of this cross? (Select all that apply.)
A) The original plant with green leaves with multiple yellow spots is likely heteroplasmic for a mutation in the chloroplast genome.
B) The yellow spots are cells that, by replicative segregation, have received only mutant chloroplast genomes.
C) The plants with yellow leaves that originate from the plant with yellow spots as the egg donor received the mutant chloroplast maternally.
D) Presumably, eggs that are heteroplasmic for mutant chloroplasts will not produce viable plants.
E) When the plant is the pollen donor, the plant with nonmutant chloroplast DNA will contribute the chloroplasts, and all progeny will have all green leaves.
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