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Ancient DNA Secrets

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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The Importance of Mitochondrial DNA

Everyone alive today with broadly British ancestry is descended from Edward III. The chances of you not being is teen tiny, it might be mitochondrial DNA. There's many more of the genes from mitochondria because there's more mitochondria than just the single genome.

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