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Question:

What does H in’ ‘d’ and ‘III’ refer to in the enzyme Hind III?

Answer:

Nomenclature of the restriction endonuclease contains three parts:-

  1. Abbreviation of the genus and the species of the organism to the three letters
  2. A letter, number or combination of the two to indicate the strain of the same species.
  3. Last, Roman numeral to indicate the order of identification where modifications were found in the same organisms.

In the HindIII enzyme, ‘H’ stands for Haemophilus (Genus); ‘in’ stands for influenzae (species); and ‘d’ is the strain from Rd and lastly ‘III’ indicates the order of identification in which enzyme was isolated from the strain of the bacterium.


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