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I've been reading up on how nucleobases have both keto and enol forms, and how their enol forms can lead to point mutations in DNA replication. 1. What would cause a nucleobase to switch between keto and enol forms? 2. What happens to enol forms of nucleobases in the cell, are they used...

What about the mutations that occur in stem cells, won't those eventually build up?

I'm hoping a mod can move this to the biology forum section, I keep trying to post in it, but every time I click on the biology forums I'm automatically logged out. I've read about how sometimes the DNA polymerase inserts a wrong amino acid and ends up modifying the DNA rather than the RNA...

Sorry, I think i'll do some more research on my own. I'm finding this all very confusing.

I guess the mystery that I'm wondering about is if elements could exist that transmit visible light 100% due to having an energy level too high to absorb it. Similar to the way radio waves move through walls.

I think what was confusing me is what hilbert2 posted, where the spin of an electron can change from 1/2 to -1/2, I was wondering if the spin of other elementary particles (like up/ down quarks) could be changed in a similar way.

I'm a bit new to studying physics so I hope this question doesn't sound off. I already know this "Photons are emitted from an atom when an electron transitions from one state to a lower-energy state. The energy of the emitted photon equal to the difference in energy between the two states."...

I've been doing some research on this but I've been seeing conflicting answers. 1 group of answers says an electron's spin can be changed using a magnetic field. Is the same thing true for quarks?(like the up down quarks in protons and neutrons?). Another set of answers are saying it's...

I'm having a hard time getting the wording right for what I'm trying to ask. Basically if possible, if you were to take a single instance of an element, and make it interact with a completely different element would it automatically create a bond between the 2 or are there other things that...

I've been looking all over the internet, can calcium and iron form an ionic bond, Gold and Radium, Sodium and Tin. If those elements happened to run into each other. Also, another thing I don't understand is why don't the atoms in my hand bond with atoms on the wall when they come into contact.