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| Modern Genetic Analysis Chapter 5. Recombination of Genes The Mechanism of Crossing-Over Figure 5-19. Repair of mispaired nucleotides in heteroduplex DNA to either A or a. Heteroduplex DNA containing mismatched base pairs is unstable. The mispaired nucleotides can produce a distortion in the DNA at these points that will be recognized by a repair system.

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