Living cells repair DNA errors using approximately seven cut-and-paste enzymes that travel along the DNA molecule, locate errors, remove incorrect nucleotides, and insert correct ones; the cell does not allow division until all errors are corrected, but the mechanism by which the cell knows replication is complete is unknown.
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“What actually happens is that under the guidance of a living cell around seven enzymes... they literally creep along this extraordinarily long thread which is the DNA, locate where the errors are, take out the nucleotide that's wrong and put the right one in.”
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