Nitrous Acid Causes Which of the Following Types of Mutations

question 27

Multiple Choice

Nitrous acid causes which of the following types of mutations in a cell?

• A) base- pair substitutions
• B) frameshifts
• C) chromosome breaks
• D) base- pair deletions
• E) pyrimidine dimers

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