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enzymes that recognize specific, short nucleotide sequences in double stranded dna and cleave dna at these specific sites are known as

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Restriction enzymes, also called restriction endonucleases, recognize a specific sequence of nucleotides in double stranded DNA and cut the DNA at a specific location. They are indispensable to the isolation of genes and the construction of cloned DNA molecules.

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