Three common ways to repair changes in DNA structure are nucleotideexcision repair, mismatch repair, and homologous recombination repair. Which of these three mechanisms would be used to fix the following types of DNA changes?A. A change in the structure of a base caused by a mutagen in anondividing eukaryotic cellB. A change in DNA sequence caused by a mistake made by DNApolymeraseC. A thymine dimer in the DNA of an actively dividing bacterial cell

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Three common ways to repair changes in DNA structure are nucleotide
excision repair, mismatch repair, and homologous recombination repair. Which of these three mechanisms would be used to fix the following types of DNA changes?
A. A change in the structure of a base caused by a mutagen in a
nondividing eukaryotic cell
B. A change in DNA sequence caused by a mistake made by DNA
polymerase
C. A thymine dimer in the DNA of an actively dividing bacterial cell

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DNA repair, it is a mechanism by which a cell recognise, or identify the mutations, damage, or any kind of mismatch pairs in DNA and correct it.

There are three main type of DNA repair methods

1. nucleotide excision repair,

2. mismatch repair, and

3. homologous recombination

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