RESTRICTION NUCLEASE

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Meaning:

Any of the enzymes that cut nucleic acid at specific restriction sites and produce restriction fragments; obtained from bacteria (where they cripple viral invaders); used in recombinant DNA technology

Synonyms:

restriction endonuclease; restriction enzyme; restriction nuclease

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("restriction nuclease" is a kind of...):

endonuclease (a nuclease that cleaves nucleic acids at interior bonds and so produces fragments of various sizes)

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