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In bacteria, the restriction enzyme plays an important role in defence against viral infection by chopping foreign DNA into pieces, but it does not cut its own DNA because of
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methylation of A or C at the recognition site.
The methylation of adenine or cytosine at the recognition sequence of the DNA protects it from restriction endonuclease.
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