People with a commonly occurring, wild type allele of PTC with two adjacent thymines at a particular site in the coding sequence are more prone to BCCs than people without this allele. How can this be explained (one sentence)? The "two adjacent thymines" allele of PTC causes a bigger increase in BCC risk for people xeroderma pigmentosum (XP), who lacks components of the nucleotide excision repair pathway, compared to people without XP. How can

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Tissue regeneration involves the restoration of tissue components by regrowth of damaged tissues. In contrast, tissue repair involves patching of injured tissue rather than restoring it. It is the proliferative capacity of the cells that decides the amount of regeneration against the repair that would occur in the tissue. Both regeneration and repair depending on the duration of the injury and response to the inflammation.