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noun
Any of several enzymes capable of cleaving the phosphodiester bonds between the nucleotide subunits of nucleic acids.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, microbiology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
general term for enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleic acid by cleaving chains of nucleotides into smaller units
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: enzyme
Narrower terms: endonuclease, exonuclease
History
From nucleo- + -ase.
Across languages
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