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Gel electrophoresis can be used to separate various pieces of DNA by their lengths. When the location of target strands of DNA need to be located, specific restriction enzymes function to sever the particular DNA strand, and then take the desired, different strands of DNA (severed by the same restriction enzyme) and adds it to the original specimen of DNA. I know this works on plasmids (circular pieces of DNA found in bacteria). Very, very interesting stuff.

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