in dna, what is a palindrome
Palindromes. A palindrome is a sequence of letters and/or words, that reads the same forwards and backwards.  able was I ere I saw elba  is a palindrome. Palindromes also occur in DNA.There are two types.. Palindromes that occur on opposite strands of the same section of DNA helix. 5' GGCC 3' 3' CCGG 5'. This type of palindrome serves as the target for most restriction enzymes. The graphic shows the palindromic sequences seen by five restriction enzymes (named in blue) commonly used in recombinant DNA work.