You are working in a medical research lab and have to determine if a patient is heterozygous or homozygous for a particular restriction site

After treating the DNA with a restriction
enzyme that cuts at that site, you subject the sample to gel electrophoresis. How many
bands would be indicative of the heterozygous condition?
A. one
B. two
C. three
D. four
E. Impossible to answer from the information
given.


B

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