I'm learning all sorts of fun things so I thought I would start putting up fun facts. Here's the fun fact for today:
For every second of sun exposure 50-100 dimers are created in your exposed skin cells. These are caused by two base pairs or nucleotides (nobs that code for your proteins) on your DNA covalently bonding (sharing electrons) and causes a problem in DNA a big chunk has to be cut out by enzymes, unzipped from the double helix, removed, and then put back together and the DNA backbone taped up with the tape enzyme ligase.
So when those errors become more than can be fixed you can have skin cancer.
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