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Amazing Discovery Reveals Why You Didn't Get Your Dad's Mitochondria
Virtually every animal on Earth can thank their mother for the energy that fuels each of their cells.
The power is generated in a part of the cell known as the mitochondria, and this organelle is made entirely from a genetic recipe laid out in your mother's DNA...
...The findings do not explain why, in rare circumstances, scientists have found mtDNA transmission in some humans that looks as though it came from both the father and the mother. But it might help experts better understand some fertility disorders, which can be passed down through eggs or sperm...
https://www.sciencealert.com/amazing-discovery-reveals-why-you-didnt-get-your-dads-mitochondria