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How can you explain how genetic similarities are due to common ancestry? Where do we get our DNA from?

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Actually our genetic code is unrepeatable, the union of the female x chromosomes of our mother and chromosomes and of our father, generate a diploid cell with a UNIQUE cellular genetic code.

What shows our descent from the same ancestor is mitochondrial DNA, this DNA is the same and is repeated throughout the human race.

Step-by-step explanation:

Mitochondrial DNA is circular and is found in our organelle called mitochondria, responsible for cellular respiration and formation of the energy currency ATP-

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