Deamination of adenine results in the formation of hypoxanthine. Hypoxanthine selectively base pairs with cytosine. If this error is not corrected, what base pair can the original A·T base pair be converted to after cycles of DNA replication?a) G·C b) C·G c) T·A d) A·G

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Deamination of adenine results in the formation of hypoxanthine. Hypoxanthine selectively base pairs with cytosine. If this error is not corrected, what base pair can the original A·T base pair be converted to after cycles of DNA replication?
a) G·C

b) C·G
c) T·A
d) A·G
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