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A. It's not, the daughter cell has to adjust to life with damaged DNA.
   B. Correction is not needed, since DNA polymerase always adds the correct nucleotide.
   C. It's corrected when the DNA is transcribed.
   D. DNA polymerase backs up, removes the incorrect nucleotide, and replaces it with the correct one.
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11 years ago
c is the answer. regarless of what nucleotide it will transcribe the same
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11 years ago
A. There is no known way of correcting the mistake yet.
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11 years ago
SNP's single nucleotide polymorphisms are what you are asking about and this where DNA Polymerase may detect purine/pyrimidine substitutions.
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The error rate is extremely low like .00001%(give or take a zero)  but DNA polymerase does make corrections when an error is found.
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