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Delineation in terminology: mutations

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01-15-2014 10:09 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Itinerant Lurker
01-12-2014 2:42 PM

Quite a lot of mutation has nothing to do with replication -- that's been known for a long time. UV light causes pyrimidine dimers to form in DNA, transcription makes double-stranded breaks (which often are repaired incorrectly) more likely, and methylated cytosines spontaneously deaminate.
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