Since most clothing is made out of plant fibers like cotton or animal hair/fur/wool, if you look at like a cotton shirt or something through the right microscope can you see the DNA of the cotton plant?
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Yes. And it’s used to detect fabric fraud. Certain plants come from certain regions of the world, with (more or less) unique DNA to that region. Example: Egyptian cotton.
Also, Leather still contains mitochondrial DNA as well.
It’s like an episode of CSI, but for clothes.
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