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DNA of a bacterium is not cleaved by its own restriction enzymes because the recognition DMA sequences are
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Bacterial DNA is protected from its own restriction enzymes because the recognition sites are methylated by methylase enzymes. Restriction enzymes cannot cut these methylated sequences.
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