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Why do X-rays stimulate mitotic clones?

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Why do X-rays stimulate mitotic clones?

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X-rays cause chromosome breakage, which is actually how normal recombination occurs in meiosis, so incorrect pairing and rejoining of broken ends will cause mitotic recombination. Its far better to use the FLP-FRT system because X-rays cause lots of mutations as well!

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