BIOL SCI 150 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Homo Sapiens, Homo Erectus, Mitochondrial Eve
14 Mar 2018
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Individuals from the large family of close relatives to homo sapiens. One of first fossils recognized as being homo sapiens discovered in a cave in. Both chloroplasts and mitochondria were once free living cells (prokaryotes). Eventually, they ended up inside the same organism, and worked better together than apart so eukaryotic cells developed. Lived in east africa about 200,000 years ago. The hypothetical most recent common ancestor of all living humans. Has a certain mt sequence that has been passed down in every generation since. A term used to describe a group of mitochondrial sequences that are more closely related to one another than to others, indicated a recent common ancestor for the group. Haplogroups of the early development of the species in africa. Africa and l3 is the group that migrated into the middle east. N mitochondria haplogroup gave rise to populations in europe and asia. M mitochondria haplogroup gave rise to populations in asia.
