Question

How does radiation cause mutations?a) The extreme heat caused by radiation ruptures the lysosomes found in cellsb) Radiation prevents crossing over during metaphase Ic) Radiation breaks apart the bonds that hold DNA together. Mutation may result when the cells tries to put the pieces back togetherd) Radiation causes DNA methylation.

Answer 1

Radiation causes damage to the DNA, and then when this damage is repaired errors or mutations can occur.

Different kinds of radiation cause different damage and depending on that damage and how the cell repairs its DNA is the kind of mutation that can occur.

The sentence that better describes this is c) Radiation breaks apart the bonds that hold DNA together. A mutation may result when the cells try to put the pieces back together