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Postby Thom9000 » Fri Dec 02, 2005 6:06 am

Correct me if im wrong but, the mitochondrial dna of a human female is the same to that of her mothers right? if that was true wouldnt all human females have the same mitochondrial dna??
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Postby Poison » Fri Dec 02, 2005 6:54 am

yes your first sentence is right but all human carry the same DNA with her or his mother. ( I mean males have mitochondria too. :) ) . about your second sentence: why? all human females are relatives?
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Postby lara » Fri Dec 02, 2005 11:20 am

u have Eve in mind??
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Postby Thom9000 » Sat Dec 03, 2005 10:24 pm

how can we not be all relatives?? even then wouldnt we have like 1000 variations of mitochondrial dna??
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Postby MrMistery » Sun Dec 04, 2005 11:03 am

Well, take in mind that humans did not evolve from apes yesterday to humans today. This happened gradually and you can not state how many "primary humans" they were. We literally breeded with monkeys for a long time. So you see, there are a lot of types of mithDNA, even theoretically...
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Postby Poison » Sun Dec 04, 2005 5:38 pm

we are not all relatives of course, as Andrew said there are many differences.
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Postby Ilyaas » Sun Dec 04, 2005 9:15 pm

this means that the metabloic rate of the daughter is the same as the mother relative to the age they reach?
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Postby Poison » Tue Dec 06, 2005 5:33 pm

Metabolic rate depends on many things, not only genetic.
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Postby Terry K. » Tue Dec 06, 2005 9:28 pm

I depends on diet, activity levels, heredity, and a couple other things that aren't as important and I forget what they are due to their unimportance.
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