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How does study of Mitochondrial DNA help in evolutionary studies ?

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1. Mitochondrial DNA comparisons are used to trace human origins.
2. Mitochondrial DNA is used to track and date recent evolutionary time because it mutates 5 to 10 time faster than DNA in the nucleus.
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