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Q17 Homework – Unanswered What type of physical mutation would most likely occur as a result of exposure to Oxygen free-radic

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Oxygen free radicals are very commonly known as Reactive Oxygen Species(ROS). These ROS possesses a unpaired electron. Due to their unpaired electron they are very very reactive, and also they react with cellular DNA to form adducts or directy induced mutation by chemical changes.

By chemical changes or by forming adducts they mostly causes nonsense physical mutation, because oxygen free radicals causes chemical changes in the DNA bases so they mispaires. For examples - oxydation of Guanine(G) forms 8-oxy-7,8-dihydrodeoxyguanine which mispaires with Adenine(A) so results in a nonsence mutation that change the protein structure.

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