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#Question id: 2887


Which of the following reasons has led to the evolutionary selection of an extra methyl group in DNA?

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization
  1. Thymine is more stable than Uracil due to the absence of an extra methyl group attached to the 5’ position.

  2. Cytosine undergoes spontaneous deamination to yield Uracil, which repair enzymes cannot recognize as foreign to DNA.

  3. If the genetic material contained uracil, then uracil arising from cytosine deamination would go undetected by the surveillance systems that maintain the genome.

  4. Uracil has greater resistance to photochemical mutation, making the genetic material more stable.

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Addition of urea leads to a two-state transition between α-helix and random coil conformation. It has been observed that [θ]222 of the polypeptide is -11000 deg cm2 dmol-1 in the presence of 6M urea. Initially it was observed that tile values of mean residue ellipticity at 220 nm ([θ]220) are -36000, and +4000 deg cm2 dmol-1 for α-helix, and random coil conformations of this polypeptide. The percentage of the polypeptide in α-helix conformation is: