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DNA repair

Cultural

The way in which a cell corrects potentially damaging or mutagenic errors in its DNA. (See mutagen.) DNA bases may be directly replaced by enzymes, or part of a strand may be replaced by enzymes using its opposite, paired strand as a template.

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Then he took a job in the town’s water department as a jack-of-all-trades, doing everything from pump repair to collecting payments.

From Washington Times • Nov. 11, 2018

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