Fill the Table with mutagenic agents and provide their type (physical, chemical, biological) and their classification based on their effect (teratogenic, carcinogenic, clastogenic, or non-specific), together with their modes of action. Mutagen Type of Mutagen Classification based on effect Action                                                 2-aminopurine       Acridine orange       Proflavine

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Fill the Table with mutagenic agents and provide their type (physical, chemical, biological) and their classification based on their effect (teratogenic, carcinogenic, clastogenic, or non-specific), together with their modes of action.

Mutagen

Type of Mutagen

Classification based on effect

Action

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2-aminopurine

 

 

 

Acridine orange

 

 

 

Proflavine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Mutagens are the known sources of physical, chemical or biological triggers of faults through manipulating the genotype or gene expression that contributes to a genetic abnormality, and this process is called a mutation. It can be spontaneously or may be induced by mutagen.

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Mutagen

Types of mutagen

 Effect of mutagen

2-Aminopurine

Chemical mutagen

2-Aminopurine, a base analogue mutagen, it causes transition and frameshift mutations. The analogue is cause mutations by two process: directly due to cytosine mispairing, and indirectly, by mismatch repair saturation

 

Acridine orange

Chemical Mutagen

Acridine orange dye induced mutations are activated by the removal or addition of a base pair, triggering a mutation in the frameshift.

 

Proflavin

Chemical Mutagen

By polymerizing among nucleic acid base pairs, Proflavine induces basepair deletions or basepair insertions. It can cause the double-stranded DNA breaks in the of light.

 

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