A Chemical Compound Would Increase the Mutation Rate If It

question 105

Multiple Choice

A chemical compound would increase the mutation rate if it inhibited:

• A)mismatch repair.
• B)nucleotide excision repair.
• C)base excision repair.
• D)DNA ligase.
• E)All of these choices are correct.

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Definitions:

Psychosis

A mental state where there is a loss of contact with reality, often featuring hallucinations, delusions, and impaired thinking.

Symptoms

The signs or indications of a disease or condition experienced by an individual.

Genetic Connection

The relation or link between individuals or traits through genes inherited from common ancestors.

Schizophrenia

A long-term mental disorder characterized by a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.