restriction fragment

1. 1.

   the fragment of DNA that is produced by cleaving DNA with a restriction enzyme

   Broaderfragment

Questions about restriction fragment

What does restriction fragment mean?

restriction fragment means "the fragment of DNA that is produced by cleaving DNA with a restriction enzyme".

Is restriction fragment a common word?

restriction fragment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.