When the sequence of nucleotides read in the 5??3? direction on one strand is same as the sequence read in the 5??3?

direction on the complementary strand, the sequence is called a(n) ____.



a. inverted sequence
b. palindrome
c. restriction site
d. restriction fragment length polymorphism
e. inactive restriction site


ANSWER: b

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