In the Biocultural Connection box Maori Origins, what was the focus of the research on the Maori people?

a. Studying migration patterns of the first peoples to inhabit North America
b. Creating lineage divisions based on DNA samples
c. Connecting mitochondrial DNA with the Australian aborigines
d. Connecting DNA types with the people’s origin myths
e. Sequencing DNA in order to type for potential diseases in this ethnic group


ANSWER: d

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