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serg [7]
3 years ago
7

Bacterial cultures are sometimes exposed to ultraviolet (UV) light in order to generate organisms with new genetic traits. Why d

o microbiologists choose to use UV light for this purpose?
Biology
1 answer:
const2013 [10]3 years ago
7 0
<h2>Ultraviolet (UV) Light</h2>

Explanation:

  • <em>Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI)</em> is a purification technique that  inactivate microorganisms and the short wavelength ultraviolet (UV-C) light to execute by destroying nucleic acids and upsetting their DNA, leaving them incapable to vital cellular functions.
  • <em>Ultraviolet (UV) light kills cells damaging their DNA</em>
  • <em>The subsequent thymine dimer is very stable,</em> however fix of this sort of DNA harm for the most part by extracting or expelling the two bases and filling in the holes with new nucleotides is fairly efficient.
  • UV light applies its mutagenic impact by energizing <em>electrons in atoms</em>
  • <em>The excitation of electrons in DNA atoms regularly brings about the development of extra bonds between contiguous pyrimidines (explicitly thymine) in DNA</em>
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