Which mutation leads to cell death regardless of what nucleotide is altered in the DNA strand?
cells with base change mutations are more prone to get eliminated by apoptosis ( Programmed cell death). After a mutation occur it goes to immediate repair response where replication, cell division, transcription etc all processes get halted. Only after repair things get to normal or otherwise elimination of cell. In case of base mutation enzyme cannot recognise mutation and it remains in DNA. It lead to abnormalities in cell function which ultimately leads to cell death as soon as abnormalities recognised by apoptotic factors.
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