Ammonium uptake from the soil is carried by AMT/Rh family transporters

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One of the most mutagenic base analogs is 5-bromouracil, an analog of thymine.

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The presence of the bromo substituent allows the base to mispair with guanine via the enol tautomer

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5-bromouracil induces transitions in both directions, A:T ↔ G:C.

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Tautomeric forms of the four common bases in DNA.

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Intercalating agents, such as proflavin, acridine, and ethidium, cause the deletion or addition of a base pair or even a few base pairs.

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Intercalating agents are flat molecules containing several polycyclic rings that bind to the equally flat purine or pyrimidine bases of DNA, just as the bases bind or stack with each other in the double helix