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| | MCDB 2150 -- Lecture 18 |
 | | Selective termination of DNA synthesis at specific nucleotides (A, C, G, or T), which permits the lengths of the resulting single-stranded DNA fragments to be used to identify nucleotide positions in the DNA sequence; |
 | | Synthesis of a new strand of DNA is initiated from the primer, and a chain termination process (incoproration of a 2'-,3'-dideoxynucleotide, which leaves no 3'-OH group for further chain growth) is used to stop synthesis selectively at any one of the four DNA nucleotides. |
 | | Thus, the first base added to the newly synthesized strand (corresponding to the shortest fragment on the sequencing gel) is complementary to the extreme 3'-position of the template strand, immediately adjacent to the site that the primer hybridizes to. |
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