One of the broken strands jumps into Dad's. Reads what nucleotides are missing, fixes the gap, then jumps back in to its broken DNA strand. Now it's used as a template to fix its original broken strand, and now it's fixed. And that's a very more specific, directed way of fixing the DNA to remove errors. So, basically, what you can do is through this CRISPR technology that we've hijacked from the bacteria.

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