1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
Morgarella [4.7K]
1 year ago
11

What generally causes thymine dimers to form in a strand of dna, and why are thymine dimers a problem?.

Biology
1 answer:
valentina_108 [34]1 year ago
6 0

Ultraviolet light can cause thymine dimers, potentially creating a mutation that could lead to cancer.

<h3>What  Causes Thymine Dimers ?</h3>

In a single POLYNUCLEOTIDE CHAIN a pair of THYMINE residues  that have become chemically bonded by the action of ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT. The lesion can inhibit DNA replication unless repaired.

Pyrimidine Dimers or thymine dimers  are usually covalent links between adjacent pyrimidine bases on the same strand of DNA.

Thymine dimers distorts the DNA shape and prevents the accurate copying of DNA, which causes mutations.

For more details regarding thymine dimer, visit

brainly.com/question/25403396

#SPJ1

You might be interested in
Stem cells are cells that can differentiate into many different kinds of cells. Scientists have discovered that the environment
expeople1 [14]

When stem cells grown on hard, rigid surface, then they became bone cells. Researchers demonstrate in Nature materials that human mesenchymal stem cells grown on a rigid substrate for some time become biased toward differentiating into bone-cell lineage, whereas cell grown on softer surfaces are just likely to eventually follow a bone or fat cell fate.

4 0
3 years ago
What is NOT a physical change
natka813 [3]

Answer:

a

Explanation:

7 0
2 years ago
Read 2 more answers
This graph shows the motion of four cars.
RoseWind [281]

Answer:

55 graphics should be euown

8 0
2 years ago
QUESTION 2
ASHA 777 [7]

Answer:

Carbon dioxide

Explanation:

Xylem and phloem are the two conducting tissues of a vascular plants. They are referred to as vascular bundles. Xylem and phloem are responsible for conducting certain substances from one part of the plant to another.

The xylem is responsible for conducting WATER AND DISSOLVED MINERALS from the root of the plants to other parts e.g leaves, stem, flowers etc. while the phloem conducts sugar (product of photosynthesis) e.g glucose from the leaves of the plant to other parts including the stem, root etc.

According to this question, xylem or phloem does not conduct or carry gaseous substances like carbon dioxide (CO2).

7 0
3 years ago
What organelles are in a white blood cell<br> ?
nika2105 [10]
Lysosomes are found in white blood cells and is what provides the enzymes need to consume the foreign object that it finds in the body. 
7 0
3 years ago
Other questions:
  • Elaine is a 28-year-old woman pregnant with multiples. she is diagnosed with hyperemesis gravidarum (excessive vomiting during p
    7·1 answer
  • What is the process in the illustration called
    5·1 answer
  • During fertilization, a sperm combines with a nucleus in the ovule to form
    11·2 answers
  • A student sees a bee on a flower. The student wonders how the bee finds flowers. This student is displaying the scientific attit
    14·2 answers
  • A wind turbine generating electricity involves electromagnetic energy. thermal energy. solar energy. mechanical energy. chemical
    8·1 answer
  • What is Somatotyping
    10·2 answers
  • Which correctly lists three water sources that contribute to a river system?
    15·2 answers
  • ______rock is created form the cooling and crystallization of magma (or lava) into a solid​
    11·1 answer
  • The shorter the wavelength between waves the higher its
    14·1 answer
  • Name three methods of disrupting cells before fractionation
    8·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!