Why is mitochondrial DNA useful for tracking human evolutionary history?

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Dr Birendra Kumar Mishra
Nov 25, 2016

The mitochondrial DNA is a maternal that is used to construct evolutionary trees.

Explanation:

  1. The mitochondrial DNA is a maternal that is used to construct evolutionary trees.
  2. The mitochondrial DNAs have a higher rate of mutations than the nuclear DNA.
  3. The higher rate of in mitochondrial DNA mutationsmaking it easy to resolve differences between closely related individuals.
  4. The mitochondrial DNAs show similarities with the prokaryotic DNA.
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