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A slice of life: Individual, fluorescently labeled DNA molecules are cut by a restriction enzyme into a sequence-specific fingerprint-like pattern and the time course of the reaction is analyzed by fluorescence microscopy. As shown in the picture, all the cuts occur one after another from one end to the other along the DNA molecule.
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Schäfer et al. (2001) studied this question.
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