Solving The Mystery Of The Romanovs
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In July of 1991, nine skeletal remains were exhumed from a mass
grave in Siberia, Russia. The bones were discovered near a place where a
Russian royal family was murdered during the Russian revolution. People
began to question if the bones belonged to Czar Nicholas and Czarina
Alexandra, three o ....
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.... which are
inhereited through generations. Because of the location of the
polymorphisms in the cells cytoplasm, during fertilization, mitochondria
are only passed on from the egg. This means that the mitochondria DNA is
passed on from the mother. This information becomes useful when using them
for identification purposes.
In any given cell, there are thousands of copies of mitochondrial
DNA. This relative abundance of mitochondrial DNA can be used by
scientists to obtain DNA from s ....
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