Question 16

(Multiple Choice)

The recognition site for a restriction enzyme is 5′ ACC^GGT 3′.The ^ symbol indicates the site of cleavage.After digestion of DNA with this restriction enzyme, how will the ends of the resulting DNA fragments look?


A)They will have sticky, single-stranded ends with 5′ overhangs.
B)They will have sticky, single-stranded ends with 3′ overhangs.
C)They will have blunt ends.
D)They will have sticky, double-stranded ends.
E)The result cannot be predicted using only this information.

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