Oxidative deamination is a form of deamination which generates oxoacids in the liver. Deamination is the removal of an amine group from a molecule. ... An oxoacid is an acid which contains oxygen. ... The liver is an organ in some animals, including mammals (and therefore humans), birds, and reptiles. ...
The presence of nitrous acid can cause transitionmutations, by converting cytosine to uracil.[1][2] Nitrous acid (molecular formula HNO2) is a weak monobasic acid known only in solution and in the form of nitrite salts. ... In genetics, a Transition is a mutation changing a purine to another purine nucleotide (A <-> G) or a pyrimidine to another pyrimidine nucleotide (C <-> T). ... This article is about mutation in biology, for other meanings see: mutation (disambiguation). ... Cytosine is one of the 5 main nucleobases used in storing and transporting genetic information within a cell in the nucleic acids DNA and RNA. It is a pyrimidine derivative, with a heterocyclic aromatic ring and two substituents attached (an amine group at position 4 and a keto group at... Uracil is a pyrimidine which is common and naturally occuring. ...