Question:If
a piece of linear DNA is cit at eight different sites by a
restriction enzyme...
Question
If
a piece of linear DNA is cit at eight different sites by a
restriction enzyme...
If
a piece of linear DNA is cit at eight different sites by a
restriction enzyme and then put into a gel for electrophoresis, how
many bands will be present in the gel?
The endonuclease is the restriction enzymes that cut the DNA at
the specific sites so that DNA is cut to produce sticky ends. Let
us consider the number of restriction sites be N then the number of
fragments produced from cutting linear DNA will be N+1.
Each fragment corresponds to be each band in gel
electrophoresis.
So given number of the restriction sites is 8
So the number of treatments = number of bands = 9
So that the number of bands present on the gel
electrophoresis is 9 bands, but they are different in size
which helps in its separation.