Chapter 6, Problem 34P

In Step 6 of Fig. 6.27, the resolvase enzyme almost always cuts all four strands of DNA in the double Holliday junction intermediate: both blue strands and both red strands. Another way of stating this fact is that the enzyme cuts the DNA at Holliday junctions 1 and 2 in different ways, represented by the yellow arrows at junction 1 and the green arrows at junction 2 in the figure. But rarely, the resolvase enzyme instead cuts the DNA at both Holliday junctions in the same way (yellow arrows at both junctions or green arrows at both junctions). In other words, at both junctions, the same red strand and the same blue strand are cut. What would be the outcome of this rare resolvase enzyme behavior?