dna structure - base pairs (Dec/22/2004 )
Certain chemical agents such as nitrous acid can deaminate cytosine, converting it into uracil. How might this explain why DNA contains thymine in place of uracil?
-annag55-
Don't mean to be rude, but this sounds suspiciously like a question
on a take home quiz from a Physical Biochem course.
-mikew-