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Dna can undergo many types of modifications. one of these is methylation. in bacteria, which two bases undergo methylation more often?

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Adenine and cytosine methylation are more common in bacteria. While eukaryotes use cytosine methylation, bacteria use adenine methylation primarily as well as cytosine methylation.
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