mitochondrial DNA
mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) A circular ring of DNA found in mitochondria. In mammals mtDNA makes up less than 1% of the total cellular DNA, but in plants the amount is variable. It codes for ribosomal and transfer RNA but only some mitochondrial proteins (up to 30 proteins in animals), the nuclear DNA being required for encoding most of these. Human mtDNA codes for 13 proteins and some RNA. Mitochondrial DNA is generally inherited via the female line only, although there are some exceptions to this (see
heteroplasmy). See also
mitochondrial Eve.
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Mexico's Peyote Endangered by 'Drug Tourists'
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 9/3/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Morning Edition 09-03-2007 Mexico's Peyote Endangered by 'Drug Tourists' Host...signs that read something like: Save Our Peyote. That hallucinogenic cactus has been...made the pilgrimage to Mexico to hunt for peyote and consume it recreationally. So now...
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On the peyote road
Magazine article from: Natural History; 3/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; Most Americans know peyote only as a cactus containing an illegal...000 American Indian adherents of the peyote religion, it is a sacrament and a spirit...according to its inspiration is to follow the peyote road of personal dignity and respect...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Semi-legal drugs.(peyote grows naturally in only four Texas counties, and is used by members of the pan-tribal Native American Church)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 4/3/1999; 700+ words
; ...buttons" of America's most unusual crop: peyote, a small, mind- altering cactus used...years as an Indian religious sacrament. Peyote-officially known to botanists as Lophophora...narcotics laws. But the religious use of peyote is allowed for members of the Native American...
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 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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3 Utahns indicted on peyote charges
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 6/24/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...that he illegally consumed and distributed peyote in religious ceremonies. James "Flaming...charged with seven counts of distribution of peyote and one count of attempted possession of peyote with intent to distribute, while Linda Mooney...
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Truth about peyote in eye of beholders
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 7/5/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Larsen took the buttons, commonly called peyote, he hoped they would make him feel closer...film professor who made a documentary on peyote. "It has a horrendous taste. Think...by 10." Much has been written about peyote, a mind-altering drug, since James...
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Peyote tourism holds promise and ruin for Mexican town
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail; 11/30/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...ambiguously legal, hallucinogenic drug peyote. He's lived here since, earning...through the Huichol desert in search of peyote. Baldella is an example of the powerful draw of Real de Catorce and its peyote-driven mysticism. A growing number...
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Medicine man promotes peyote as healing drug
News Wire article from: University Wire; 2/15/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Mooney says there is almost nothing that peyote can't cure. "The progress or healing...And in many cases, if someone does the peyote ceremony every day for 30 days the problem...be gone." Eaten or brewed in a tea, peyote comes from a small spineless cactus that...
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No lingering effects of peyote found
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 11/28/2005; ; 700+ words
; A study of the effects of peyote on American Indians found no evidence...other Navajos who did not regularly use peyote. A 1994 federal law allows roughly...of the Native American Church to use peyote as a religious sacrament. The five...
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American Indian wants son to use peyote
Newspaper article from: Charleston Daily Mail; 12/27/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Indian tribe wants to be able to give peyote to his 4-year-old son during spiritual...Fowler from allowing his son to be given peyote in a case that pits the Constitution...his son but prohibited him from giving peyote to the child. Fowler challenged that...
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A Rare and Unusual Harvest; Man Collects Peyote Buttons From Cactus for American Indian Rites
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/18/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...carefully. "This is good terrain for peyote," he says. "There's a low hill...of a nearly extinct trade of licensed peyote harvesters and distributors, at a time...higher profits. Others have plowed under peyote, and still others have never opened their...
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peyote
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
peyote , spineless cactus ( Lophophora williamsii...root. The mushroomlike crown, called a peyote, or mescal, button (but unrelated to...to be swallowed. The active substance in peyote is mescaline, one of several naturally...
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Peyote
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Peyote. A hallucinogenic cactus and the basis of an...Mexico, and has long been central in local rites. Peyote brings peace and healing, resists alcoholism, and gives visions of the Peyote Spirit who is regarded either as Jesus or an Indian...
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Native American Church
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...a development that evolved out of the Peyote Cult, is a religion combining some Christian...features as a sacrament the ingestion of the peyote cactus, which may induce multicolored...Christian theology and eschatology. The peyote rite is an all-night ceremonial, usually...
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Castaneda, Carlos
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...related the use of Lophophora williamsii (peyote) to acquisition of wisdom, or knowledge...mushrooms, and learning righteousness with peyote, proclaiming instead that administration...attributed to the spirits contained in peyote and the other plant allies. Self-contradictory...
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Indian Religious Life
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...the church's sacrament, the flesh of peyote, a cactus that grows near the Texas...sacramental communion. For practitioners, peyote is a living, healing teacher who can...Many stories relate how the spirit of peyote helped souls lost in the desert or drifting...
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