This lab uses the power of a word processing program to simulate the action of restriction enzymes on the actual lambda phage DNA sequence. It also enables students to make predictions of how a electrophoresis gel will look based on what they now know about the size of DNA fragments they have just cut. This can be done as a stand-alone lab or as a warm up for an electrophoresis lab using lambda phage DNA cut with EcoRI, HindIII & BamHI enzymes. (V1.0)

You will need to download the file of the DNA sequence from the Lambda phage virus.