The recognition site for a restriction enzyme is 5? ACC^GGT 3?. The ^ symbol indicates the site of cleavage. After digestion of DNA with this restriction enzyme, how will the ends of the resulting DNA fragments look?

A) They will have sticky, single-stranded ends with 5? overhangs.
B) They will have sticky, single-stranded ends with 3? overhangs.
C) They will have blunt ends.
D) They will have sticky, double-stranded ends.
E) The result cannot be predicted using only this information.


C) They will have blunt ends.

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