Author: Dhara Parsania

​​Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is inherited solely from the mother, making it useful in tracing maternal lineage and studying human evolution. Its resilience in damaged samples helps track population movements across continents, revealing our common ancestor, “Mitochondrial Eve.” It is theorized that the mitochondria were once a prokaryotic microbe that was engulfed by a eukaryote (Martin,…