The technique of Sanger sequencing takes advantage of the fact that dideoxynucleotides (nucleotides in which the 3' hydroxyl group is absent) act as

A. palindromic sites.
B. restriction sites.
C. chain terminators.
D. probes.
E. none of these


C

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