Question

Base excision repair is responsible for fixing (select all that apply): Group of answer choices individual damaged nucleotides that minimally impact the helix structure. double stranded breaks. single stranded breaks. individual damaged nucleotides that cause a major impact to the helix structure.

Answer 1

Answer:

-- individual damaged nucleotides that minimally impact the helix structure.

-- single stranded breaks

Explanation:

The Base excision repair is popularly known as the BER. It is defined as the cellular mechanism which repairs the DNA that are damaged throughout the cell cycle. It helps in correcting the the small base lesions which do not distort the helix structure of the DNA significantly. It is also responsible for fixing the single stranded breaks of the DNA.