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nuclease vs endonuclease

endonuclease vs nuclease

nuclease and endonuclease both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
nuclease Yes No No No
endonuclease Yes No No No
As nouns, endonuclease is a hyponym of nuclease; that is, endonuclease is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than nuclease:
  • nuclease: general term for enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleic acid by cleaving chains of nucleotides into smaller units
  • endonuclease: a nuclease that cleaves nucleic acids at interior bonds and so produces fragments of various sizes
Other hyponyms of nuclease include exonuclease.
nuclease (noun) endonuclease (noun)
general term for enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleic acid by cleaving chains of nucleotides into smaller units a nuclease that cleaves nucleic acids at interior bonds and so produces fragments of various sizes
Difference between nuclease and endonuclease

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