[LMB] OT: AKICOTL: Hair color and perceptions of it.
Mark Allums
mallums at tyler.net
Wed Aug 30 18:39:58 BST 2006
Rowena wrote:
> oeps, well if they were part of the DNA they would be part of the cell
> as well (or not?) but they otherway around is not necessarily so. (But
> who do they speak about mitochondrial DNA, is that a mix up?)
As Tora no doubt could easily explain, mitochondria are an organelle
that is nearly it's own cell, as if some time in the distant past, a
primitive organism just moved in and made itself indispensable.
Mitochondria have their own DNA completely separate from the DNA of the
nucleus. Mitochondrial DNA is inherited exclusively from the mother.
--Mark Allums
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