A Bacterial Mismatch Repair System Is Able to Correct Replication

question 1

Multiple Choice

A bacterial mismatch repair system is able to correct replication errors that insert an incorrect nucleotide.How is this repair system able to determine which mismatched base is incorrect?

• A)The incorrect base results in a bulge on only the new strand.
• B)The incorrect base is in the parental strand which is modified with methyl groups.
• C)Some bases of the parental strand are methylated, while none of the new strand are.
• D)A methyl group is attached to the incorrect base in the newly synthesized DNA strand.
• E)DNA polymerase is bound to the new strand at the location of the incorrect base.

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