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What are restrictions enzyme. Mention their type with role in biotechnology.

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Restriction enzymes are the enzymes of bacterial origin which cleaves DNA into fragments at or near specific recognition sites within DNA molecules. This principle is used in biotechnology to cut and insert the desired gene (gene of interest ) thereby generating an rDNA with desirable characters.
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