BMS1062 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: High Fidelity, Dna Replication, Guanine

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Lecture 4: the replication of (microbial and) eukaryotic organisms. *fidelity: the degree of accuracy with which something is reproduced. There is only one mistake in every 10^10 nucleotides that are copied. This means that dna synthesis has an incredibly high fidelity, or in other words, accuracy. If there is a small change in geometry, two hydrogen bonds can form between guanine and. These rare examples of tautomeric forms of dna bases occur transiently, meaning that they occur for a short period and then no longer exist, and it results in incorrect pairing. An image displaying the common bases and their altered tautomeric forms is included below, as well as the base pairs that can occur as a result of this. In the rare tautomeric form, c can pair with a instead of g, t can pair with g instead of a, etc. The high fidelity in dna replication is important in the initial base pairing.

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