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. A gene was being ligated to the plasmid vector to prepare a recombinant DNA during
bacterial transformation. An exonuclease was added to the tube accidentally. How will it
affect the next step of the experiment?
What would happen if the restriction enzymes do not cut the DNA at specific recognition
sequences?

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The next step of the experiment will not be affected since the recombinant DNA molecule is circular and does not have any free ends. Therefore no substrate will be available for exonuclease enzyme to act and remove the nucleotides from the free ends of the given DNA. If the restriction enzyme does not cut the DNA at specific recogniton sequences than the desired gene can not be obtained as there will not sticky ends present and that specific character will also not be obtained.

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