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Is it irreversible or simply at a greater rate than DNA repair? I thought there were DNA repair mechanisms.
by AQuantized 7y ago
Is it irreversible or simply at a greater rate than DNA repair? I thought there were DNA repair mechanisms.
- hundreddaysoff 7y agoIt's irreversible because it's at a greater rate than DNA repair. At least, it is in mammalian non-germ cells. Also, there isn't just one kind of DNA damage or DNA repair. Different kinds of damage have different orders of badness of effects and have different priors of happening by our cellular machinery.