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fibroin fibroin
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9 years ago
If a purine were subsituted for a pyrimidine at a single positon in one strand of a DNA double helix, what would happen?
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9 years ago
I don't think that could happen. Because then you would have a purine trying to hydrogen bond with another purine. Purines hydogen bond to pyrimidines and vice versa.....but just to answer your question, For a DNA double helix it will  destabilize and maybe denature. But I am not 100% sure. I am just using my logic and what I learned from biochem class.
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9 years ago
Thanks.
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