Molecular Taxonomy Using Mitochondrial DNA

Abstract

Taxonomy is a hierarchical system into which we can classify animals and plants according to certain characteristics. This system was created only using certain structural features, such as size, color ... etc. In the case where we have only a piece of tissue available from the organism, we must look for other ways to identify the organisms. It is molecular taxonomy in the classification of organisms into hierarchical groups that uses molecular features, by which we mean features stored in the sequences of information macromolecules, such as DNA, RNA and proteins.

 

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