Part one of term paper
In July of 1991, nine skeletal remains were exhumed from a mass grave in Siberia, Russia. The bones were discovered near a place where a Russian royal family was murdered during the Russian revolution. People began to question if the bones belonged to Czar Nicholas and Czarina Alexandra, three of the daughters, their son Alexi, and three t ...

Part two of term paper
... 1,100 nucleotides long. This region contains signals that control the replication of the chromosome and the transcription of the mitochondria genes. This DNA sequence accumulates mutations ten times the rate of the nuclear DNA. This high mutation rate results in unique patters of single nucleotide polymorphisms, which are inhereited through generations. Because of the location of the polymorphisms in the cells cytoplasm, during fertilization, mitochondria are only passed on from the egg. This ...