Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Mitochondrial Eve and Mitochondrial DNA

The purpose of this lab is to explain who Mitochondrial Eve is and show examples of different people across the world who have a different physical appearance.  Though people have many different physical features, they come from one single person, Mitochondrial Eve.  Mitochondrial Eve is the human we trace all of our DNA to.  DNA is traced back through the female gender.  This Mitochondrial DNA is copied nearly perfectly from the female.  This means that we can successfully trace or DNA all of the way back to the Mitochondrial Eve.



Russian:

Anna Kournikova


Morocco:

Hind Sahli



Japan:

Aya Suzuki



Nigeria:

Oluchi Onweagba



Puerto Rico:

Roselyn Sanchez Rodriguez






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