Question

Mitochondria are cell structures that contain a small quantity of DNA.

Scientists are sequencing the DNA of one particular gene in mitochondria to
help identify different species of many animals including myriapods. The
sequences that they find are called ‘barcodes’.
(i) State the part of the cell that contains most of the DNA.
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(ii) Suggest how DNA barcoding might be useful in the classification of animals,
such as myriapods.

Answer 1

The part of the cell that contains most of the DNA is the mitochondria.
The use of the DNA barcoding is that by comparison with a reference library such as DNA sections an individual sequence can be used to uniquely identify an organism to a species just like how a supermarket scanner uses the black stripes of the UPC barcode to identify an item