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Nitrous Acid Is a Chemical That Can React with DNA

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Nitrous acid is a chemical that can react with DNA and change cytosine to uracil.If a cell is exposed to nitrous acid and some of the cytosine nucleotides in a gene are converted to uracil nucleotides,what should happen when that cell replicates?


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