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3 years ago

What do agents such as chemicals, elevated temperatures, ionizing radiation, and viruses have in common?

Chemistry

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Leni [432]3 years ago

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Answer:

All of them affect the DNA

Explanation:

Chemicals are compounds that can pass through cell membranes and modificate the DNA, elevated temperatures can denaturalize the cell and therefore damage the DNA, ionizing radiation can pass through cell organelles and reach the nucleus affecting the DNA, and viruses inject its DNA into the genome and modify it.

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