UV induced dimers in a gene

During transcription, the RNA polymerase has a repair mechanism that may be able to break up dimers as it runs across the DNA strand to replicate it.

One way to test this would be to do PCR on dna you know has been affected by UV as well as on unaffected DNA.

Once you have PCR products for both, you could get each of the products sequenced.

Once you have the sequences for both, you could compare the two and see if there have been any segments "cut out". If so, this theory may not be correct. However, if the two sequences are identical, you may be able to conclude that the DNA strand was repaired by the polymerase enzyme during replication and is now therefor identical to the unaffected DNA.

SO what would your model be?