Transversion mutations vs transition mutations

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Channel: Nikolay's Genetics Lessons · 2017 · Education

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Transitions are interchanges of two-ring purines (A G) or of one-ring pyrimidines (C T): they therefore involve bases of similar shape. Transversions are interchanges of purine for pyrimidine bases, which therefore involve exchange of one-ring and two-ring structures.

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