Biology, asked by jankikumari05112001, 9 months ago

Effect of ultraviolet rays on dna is

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Answered by brainlystat477
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Ultraviolet (UV) light kills cells by damaging their DNA. The light initiates a reaction between two molecules of thymine, one of the bases that make up DNA.

Answered by akhilpratapchauhan20
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Direct DNA damage can occur when DNA directly absorbs a UVB photon, or for numerous other reasons. UVB light causes thymine base pairs next to each other in genetic sequences to bond together into pyrimidine dimers, a disruption in the strand, which reproductive enzymes cannot copy.

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