restriction fragment

American  

noun

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

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restriction fragment British  

noun

1. genetics a fragment of a DNA molecule cleaved by a restriction enzyme See also RFLP

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Example Sentences

Using a technique called restriction fragment length polymorphism, Cavenee compared the DNA of tumours to that in normal tissues taken from people with retinoblastoma.

From Nature

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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