Mutation: major evolutionary trends.

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Mutation: major evolutionary trends.

Nucleic acids symposium series - 1 Jan 1991

Drake J W

Abstract excerpt

The chemistry of the mutation process reflects not only the chemistry of DNA damage but also its subsequent metabolic processing by the cell. It is these latter steps that are the most important. They have evolved in ways that are only now coming to be understood and which reveal the effects of p...

Topics

Biological Evolution
DNA
DNA Damage
DNA Repair
Mutation
Thermodynamics

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