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DNA is in every part of the body... Not really true

It helps to look at it from two levels

Extracellular

Our body is made up of cells. Mitochondria is in all cells and is the energy system that keeps our cells running. DNA is also in all of our cells and offers the instructions for how our cells should grow based on our gene code and also the outside environment.

Intracellular.

Within our cells we have various structures. Mtiochondria (energy) Golgi apparatus (protein synthesis[muscle production]) cell nucleas (Director). DNA, contained within the cell nucleas, is the director. Mitochinria, although within every cell is in a separate intracellular structure to DNA. It's like it's a different department in the same company. So DNA isn't actually in mitochondria. It does however communicate to Mitochondria through messengers called mRNA or messenger RNA.

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