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If there are two pathogenic viruses, one with DNA and other with RNA, which would mutate faster? And why?

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RNA pathogenic viruses are more mutable because RNA is less stable biomolecute than DNA because it is single stranded with no complementary nucleotide pairing. So the nucleotides are readily affected by mutagenic factors.
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