Introduction The term 'Cancer' stems from the Latin term for 'crab'. ... Mutations may be caused by carcinogenic agents, viruses or errors in the DNA replication or mitotic processes. ... As mentioned previously, UV light causes covalent pyrimidine dimers which in turn distorts the shape of the DNA causing a loss in transcription and replication past the site of damage. ... The Primary task of the cell cycle as described by (Sherr 1996) is to ensure that DNA is faithfully replicated once during S phase and that identical chromosomal copies are distributed equally to two...

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