Write by taking a suitable example, the convention followed for naming the restriction enzymes.
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The convention followed for naming the restriction enzymes:
The first letter of the name comes from the genus, and the second two letters come from the species of the prokaryotic cell from which they were isolated.
For example, EcoRI comes from Escherichia coli, the letter ‘R’ is derived from the name of the strain.
Roman numbers following the names indicate the order in which the enzymes were isolated from that strain of bacteria.