re: #823 Salamantis

You apparently don’t know the difference between mitochondrial and nuclear DNA, which contains the species genome. The organism’s configurational and behavioral genetic traits are encoded in the genome found in the nuclear DNA; all that the mitochondrial DNA encodes for is the mitochondria, just like chloroplastic DNA in plants only encode for chloroplasts:

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In fact, the fact that the mitochondrial DNA match proves that the two configurationally different lizards evolutionarily diverged from a single common ancestor, proving Sharmuta’s point, and falsifying yours.

So they are verified as two separate species? Right, that’s what you’re saying?