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Chemicals or radiation may alter a nucleotide base in one strandof DNA; this alteration may cause the altered base to pair with anucleotide base other than its normal one. What effect would thisaccidental change in the base sequences of the DNA molecule have onDNA replication?

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Environmental exposures to radiations or certain chemicals leads to change in DNA and also damaged that DNA These external agents which are responsible for the change are called mutagen and the process is called as mutation    See Answer
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