DNA repair
process of restoring DNA after damage
DNA mismatch repair
system for fixing base errors of DNA replication and repairing some forms of DNA damage
excision repair
DNA repair mechanism in which defective regions in one strand are excised and resynthesized using the complementary base pairing information
DNA replication proofreading
correction of replication errors by DNA polymerase using a 3'-5' exonuclease activity.
nucleotide-excision repair
DNA repair mechanism