Match each DNA repair mechanism with its description.
photoactive repair
base excision repair
nucleotide excision repair
mismatch repair Â
SOS system
nonhomologous end-joining
A. | recognizes newly synthesized but improperly paired DNA and nicksthe strand to replace |
B. | cuts a piece out of distorted DNA to be filled in bypolymerase |
C. | an emergency, error-prone effort to salvage replication ofdamaged DNA |
D. | removes and replaces depurinated or deaminated bases fromsugars |
E. | repairs pyrimidine dimers in the presence of light |
F. | binds together two broken strands of DNA |