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#4) Why is DNA in the mitochondrial DNA known as "Eve's DNA"? *

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Scientists studied the genomes of more than 1200 indigenous African living in the southern part of the continent today , they pieced together a history of one of the oldest DNA's . Which is passed down maternally through the mitochondria and has survived remarkably unchanged in some populations for hundreds of thousands of years.

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