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To determine: The reason behind the harmful nature of thymine dimer.

Introduction: The structure of DNA is made from the multiple monomer units of nucleotides. A nucleotide consists of nitrogenous bases, sugar molecule and a phosphate group. There is the presence of double bonds is found in case of adenine and thymine. However, cytosine and guanine are attached by means of triple bonds.

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