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What makes mitochondrial DNA useful as a molecular clock?

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Its rate of mutation increases over time as organisms continue to evolve and differentiate from each other.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Mitochondrial DNA stay almost identical over species and only varies ever so slightly. By comparing mitochondrial DNA over species you are able to see how closely related they are and how long it might have taken for the species to evolve

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