[Artemisia] Forensics and History...was " the princes in the tower discussion"

[Wendy Campbell]

So in layman's terms - the mitochondrial DNA of all
children, male and female, is inherited from only the
mother.  Whatever Mom had, she gave to all of the
kids, and only her girls passed it along to their
kids, and so on and so forth.  Sorry, guys!  : )

And Michael, do you mean to crush my optimism that all
the really cool DNA things they do on CSI: Las Vegas
aren't real?!?!?!?!?  OMG!  Whatever will we do????? 
*Turns off snarkiness*

Katherine

--- Michael the Loud <hanhebin at yahoo.com> wrote:
 
> This type of DNA is not used to determine gender. 
> It
> is great to determine relationship and descendancy
> through female lines.  This is not an exact match
> because it is not unique.

> NOTE: Much of these arguments are wishful thinking
> like what you hear with stem cell research.  Not
> saying that it can't be done but right now the
> technology doesn't exist.  Not saying that it's not
> possible just saying we aren't there yet.
> 
> Michael


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