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Can bacteria kill the virus?


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Restriction Endonuclease:

  1. Restriction enzymes are a certain class of enzymes that cut the DNA double helical structure at a specific location.
  2. It is of two types, restriction endonuclease, and restriction exonuclease.
  3. Bacteriophages are a group of viruses that are known to infect and kill bacteria.
  4. Bacteria have a defense mechanism, they have a specific sequence of genes in their plasmid DNA that synthesize the restriction endonuclease enzyme.
  5. These enzymes cut the phage DNA making them inert and eventually killing them.

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