You work in the pathology laboratory of a large metropolitan hospital and have been asked to assist
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You work in the pathology laboratory of a large metropolitan hospital and have been asked to assist with the screening of a biopsy sample from a patients cancerous tumor. You discover a mutation in the enzyme, inorganic pyrophosphatase, which is required to cleave pyrophosphate during DNA replication. The mutation reduces the enzymes activity by half. Would this mutation be beneficial or deleterious to the cells of the tumor? Explain your answer.
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