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How did Poison Gas work?

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It depends on the type of gas used, mustard gas was one of the most common types and this attached an alkyle group to guanine nucleotides in DNA. if these guanines were in genes then transcription stopped and replication of the DNA was stopped (or went seriously wrong) this normal lead to apoptosis (programed cell death) but depending on what genes were mutated and the type of cell attacked then it could cause cancer.

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