Molecular Biology of the Gene 7th Edition by Richard Losick, James Watson, Michael Levine, Tamara Baker, Alexander Gann

Exercise 14

Given a linear piece of double-stranded DNA that includes two separate crossover regions surrounded by recombinase recognition sites, describe the alignment of the recombination sites that determines if the recombination outcome is a deletion or inversion. Explain why this arrangement dictates the outcome of the reaction.