Which of the following is not true of mitotic recombination?
A. Recombination occurs during mitosis when replication forks encounter lesions in the process of repair or single-strand breaks.
B. The recombinase Dmc1 is active in mitotic and meiotic recombination mechanisms.
C. The BRCA2 protein is a recombination mediator active in mitotic recombination repair.
D. It employs synthesis-dependent strand annealing (SDSA) most commonly.
E. It can employ double-strand break repair (DSBR), which can lead to crossing over.
B
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