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restriction fragment

noun

  1. a length of DNA cut from the strand by a restriction enzyme.


restriction fragment

noun

  1. genetics a fragment of a DNA molecule cleaved by a restriction enzyme See also RFLP
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Using a technique called restriction fragment length polymorphism, Cavenee compared the DNA of tumours to that in normal tissues taken from people with retinoblastoma.

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The 5C primers contained up to 40 bases that were specific for the corresponding restriction fragment.

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Historically, protein markers, restriction fragment length polymorphisms, and small sets of mitochondrial and nuclear markers have been used to estimate the divergence and diversity of orang-utan species.

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By targeting a specific part of the genome, 5C facilitates detection of interactions at single restriction fragment resolution.

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After calculating the filtered mean for each restriction fragment in , we calculated the global mean of all interchromosomal interaction frequencies.

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