What would be considered a chemical mutagen?
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Mutagens may be of physical, chemical or biological origin. They may act directly on the DNA, causing direct damage to the DNA, and most often result in replication error. ... Such mutagens are called promutagens.
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The chemicals that act on DNA and as a result modify the DNA bases.
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These are (1) chemicals that look like DNA nucleotides but actually they are not DNA nucleotides.
(2) chemicals that add hydrocarbon groups (any functional group like aldehyde, ketone or carboxyl etc) to nucleotide bases.
(3) chemicals that remove the amino group from adenine or cytosine.
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