Possible questions

1. Explain the work of Gregor Mendel. Who was he? Why was he important?
2. Explain how scientists traced the path of humans out of Africa.
3. What's the difference between mtDNA and nuclear DNA?
4. When leaving Africa and going to Europe, what route did humans use and roughly when did they pass points x, y & z?
5. Why did humans take a particular route at a particular time?
6. Why did humans use the southern route out of Africa?
7. Explain how a given human gets their own particular genotype.
8. Summarise the main ideas of the reading.
9. Paraphrase the following sentences: blah, blah, blah
10. what happened at what date?
11. What is the distribution of tone vs. non-tone languages?
12. What is the distribution of the new alleles?
13. What are the two genes in question?
14. What alleles of the genes exist?
15. Why were the geneticists so interested in these two alleles? (3 points)
16. Why were the linguists so interested in these two alleles?