Which Statement Is NOT a Way Scientists Used Mitochondrial DNA

question 89

Multiple Choice

Which statement is NOT a way scientists used mitochondrial DNA to determine where humans first evolved and how they spread?

• A) Scientists sampled mtDNA from individuals currently living in many different geographic regions around the world.
• B) Scientists constructed an evolutionary tree based on paternal mtDNA to trace human ancestry back to a single female.
• C) Scientists used the relatively regular rate of mtDNA mutations to determine how long it had been since groups diverged from one another.
• D) None of these describe how scientists used mitochondrial DNA to study human evolution.
• E) All of these are methods that scientists use to study human evolution.

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