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mitochondria--as shanks point out, have their own DNA-- and--everyone inherits their mother's dna (the male sperm only caries 'human dna'--so mitochondria are very useful now for tracing 'family lines' and 'genetic history'
they 'change/mutate' less then human DNA, do changes/mutations can be used to trace histories of populations.. (there was a claim some year ago of 12 or so 'eve's'--that by tracing the changes back, its clear that there were very few original woman who's genitic liniage is still in existance.. what ever, the original number of 'eve's', only 12 still have desendents alive today--or so mitochondria dna suggests.
(history of the male side of humankind can be traced through genetic changes on the Y chromisome.)
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted commensal wwh 12/26/03 02:50 PM wooden let this pass without sharing wofahulicodoc 12/27/03 12:35 PM Re: wooden let this pass without sharing shanks 12/27/03 06:34 PM Re: wooden let this pass without sharing Buffalo Shrdlu 12/27/03 08:51 PM Re: wooden let this pass without sharing wwh 12/27/03 09:35 PM Reification and the joy of nominalism shanks 12/28/03 08:35 AM Re: Reification and the joy of nominalism Buffalo Shrdlu 12/28/03 05:59 PM mitochondria of troy 12/28/03 06:54 PM Re: mitochondria wofahulicodoc 12/28/03 07:43 PM
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