The Mechanism for Reactive Oxygen Species to Cause Mutation Is

question 21

Multiple Choice

The mechanism for reactive oxygen species to cause mutation is

• A) bases are oxidized to a variety of different products which might pair with a different base than the original base would have.
• B) thymine bases are dimerized which causes a break in the DNA which is not repaired correctly.
• C) the reactive oxygen species stabilize different tautomeric forms of the bases causing inappropriate pairing.
• D) guanine is depurinated by the reactive oxygen species and if it is not repaired can result in any base being inserted.

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