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Which of the following is a reason that geneticists use mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) to study the relatedness of animal populations?

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  1. mtDNA mutates at a slower rate than nuclear DNA.
  2. mtDNA is passed from mother to child and is free from recombination that occurs between pairs of chromosomes.
  3. There are few single nucleotide polymorphisms in the hypervariable, noncoding regions.
  4. All mitochondrial proteins are coded for by mitochondrial genes.

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