DNA FingerprintingRestriction EnzymesBy Ivy Stites & Jamison Watson

What are those?! Restriction enzymes are molecular

scissors that cut DNA in specific places between nucleotides based on the code given. (like TGCTGA-TGACAA; or it could be much simpler like CC-GG).

What happens when they’re cut? Differences and similarities between the number of base pairs in each fragment are exposed the strands of DNA when restriction enzymes are utilized.

Demonstration of How Restriction Enzymes Work…NUCLEOTIDES Adenine-Purple Thymine-Orange Guanine-Green Cytosine-Yellow

What we’re going to do…

We’re going to cut this strand of DNA between the nucleotides Adenine and Guanine and the sequence AA-GG