: About Me

I am a graduate student in the department of Biochemistry. i completed my bachelors degree in medicine from india and currently work on pancreatic cancer.

My passion is ...

writing, photography

I know too much about ...

nothing!

My parents always told me ...

be good

My childhood ambition ...

to become a ......

My favorite memory ...

up the road to a remote indian village

Why I write ...

gives me pleasure, want to share ideas...

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

movies, indian music

My first job ...

medical officer

My best moment ...

will tell you later

My inspiration ...

Dr. Christian Bernard

Sciences > Molecular Biology Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution: In search of Eve

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Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution Mitochondrial DNA is an attractive target to study human evolution for several reasons: - it is present in numerous copies(several thousand copies exist compared to only two copies of the nuclear genome) - it does not undergo recombination (although new evidence suggests that it may recombine with the nuclear DNA) - it is always maternally inherited - its rate of mutation is significantly faster than that of the nuclear DNA - given its high copy number, it is often the only DNA that remains in fossilized samples Heteroplasmy is a condition where an ind...

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