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3. What will happen, if the restriction enzymes have more than one recognition site in a vector?

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If restriction enzymes have more than one restriction sites in a vector then it will cleave at more than one site in a vector so desired site of integration of gene will not occur which will make cloning and genetic engineering difficult.

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