Explain what might occur when purine or pyrimidine bases in nucleotides undergo tautomeric shifts
What will be an ideal response?
Tautomeric shifts, small atomic changes within purine or pyrimidine base molecules, change the hydrogen bonding properties of bases and allow bonding with noncomplementary bases that can lead to permanent base changes in sequence following replication. Many DNA mutations that begin as tautomeric shifts can also be induced by external agents.
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things by which of the following features?
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