why soes mutation occur at faster rate in rna than dna?

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DNA is more stable material than RNA. More over DNA has a proof reading step as a part of the replication process. RNA is an unstable molecule with no proof reading techniques while copying. Thus mutation occurs more readily in RNA than in DNA.

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(1) Purine nitrogenous base in a nucleotide is attached to pentose sugar by 1,1 glycosidic linkage.

(2) Adenosine is a nucleoside.

(3) Genome of E. coli possess 4.6 × 10⁹ base pair.

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(6) RNA is not more stable than DNA.

(7) RNA can mutate at faster rate than DNA.

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