Human Heredity: Principles and Issues (MindTap Course List)
Human Heredity: Principles and Issues (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781305251052
Author: Michael Cummings
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Mismatch repair is a DNA damage repair mechanism we studied, what does it involve?
the repair of double-stranded DNA breaks
pyrimidine dimers being excised and replaced
errors during replication being recognized and excised by specialized enzymes, then replaced by DNA polymerase,
and attached within the strand by ligase
deaminated bases being removed and replaced
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Transcribed Image Text:Mismatch repair is a DNA damage repair mechanism we studied, what does it involve? the repair of double-stranded DNA breaks pyrimidine dimers being excised and replaced errors during replication being recognized and excised by specialized enzymes, then replaced by DNA polymerase, and attached within the strand by ligase deaminated bases being removed and replaced
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DNA Repair:

DNA repair is defined as the system of cellular responses which are associated with the restoration of the normal base-pair sequence and structure of damaged DNA.

Types of DNA Repair mechanisms:

The types of DNA repair mechanisms include base excision repair, nucleotide excision repair, mismatch repair, homologous recombination and non-homologous end joining.

 

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