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noun
Any enzyme which catalyzes the cleavage of nucleic acids so as to produce variously sized fragments.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, microbiology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
a nuclease that cleaves nucleic acids at interior bonds and so produces fragments of various sizes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: nuclease
Narrower terms: restriction endonuclease, restriction nuclease, restriction enzyme
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