| NOUN | substance | endonuclease | a nuclease that cleaves nucleic acids at interior bonds and so produces fragments of various sizes |
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| Meaning | A nuclease that cleaves nucleic acids at interior bonds and so produces fragments of various sizes. | |
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| Narrower | restriction endonuclease, restriction nuclease, restriction enzyme | Any of the enzymes that cut nucleic acid at specific restriction sites and produce restriction fragments |
| Broader | nuclease | general term for enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleic acid by cleaving chains of nucleotides into smaller units |
| Spanish | endonucleasa | |
| Catalan | endonucleasa | |
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