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How do restriction work?

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Anonymous

11y ago
Updated: 9/26/2022

Restriction enzymes are used for genetic engineering. they expose the base sequence of a DNA fragment. The enzymes cut the phosphate backbones of DNA molecules at specific base sequences called recognition sites. Strands of DNA that have been cut with restriction enzymes sometimes have single-stranded tails that readily realign with tails from certain other DNA fragments. This technology allows removing a specific gene from one organism and splicing it into another. Restriction enzymes originally developed in bacteria as a defense against viruses, who inject DNA in bacteria which takes over the cell. The bacteria's restriction enzymes cut up viral DNA before it can take over the cell.

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