Describe the general process of excision repair

What will be an ideal response?


Ans: Excision repair works on damage in which one strand of DNA is affected. In the incision step, an endonuclease recognizes the damage and nicks the DNA on both sides of the damage. Next, in the excision step, an exonuclease removes the strand between the nicks. Then, a polymerase synthesizes a replacement strand, and finally DNA ligase joins the new DNA to the remainder of the original strand.

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