DNA Testing - Those Difficult Female Lines
Mitochondrial DNA -- it sounds scary. But it is really just a DNA sequence which can be used to trace the female lines in your family tree - your mother, her mother, your mother's mother, and so on. Mitochondria DNA, mtDNA for short, is found in both males and females, andis inherited from your mother. Only females pass on mtDNA to their children, but males do inherit it from their mother, even if they can't pass it on.
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- posted by Mike Goad @ 10/18/2004 09:26:00 PM