Question

Approximately how many base pairs are improperly matched before being repaired by the DNA polymerase?

a. 1 in 10,000
b. 1 in 100,000
c. 1 in 1,000,000
d. 1 in 10,000,000
e. 1 in a billion

Answer 1

Nucleic acids are made of fundamental units called base pairs along with sugar and phosphate groups.

The base pairs are joined unitedly by a hydrogen bond.

The correct answer is:

Option b. 1 in 100,000

This can be explained as:

• In the eukaryotic cells, there is a chance once in 10⁵ polymerized nucleotides to have an error.

• The errors are repaired by the DNA repair mechanism and the correct nucleotide is added.

Therefore, once in 10,000 base pairs are matched wrongly before being repaired by DNA polymerase.

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