For His `Mitochondrial Eve' Research Allan C. Wilson ... Mitochondrial DNA is inherited solely from one's mother, and hence the only intergenerational differences are those arising through random ...

Mitochondrial Eve may not have been the first human, or created by God, but she was the woman who’s mitochondrial DNA was passed on from mother to child throughout time, while every other female ...

As previously mentioned, mitochondrial DNA in humans is always inherited from a person's mother (Figure 4). As a result, we share our mitochondrial DNA sequence with our mothers, brothers ...

Typically, humans inherit mitochondria and mitochondrial DNA from their mothers only. But using sequencing data from the mitochondrial genomes of members from three unrelated families, researchers ...