polymerase vs DNA polymerase

polymerase and DNA polymerase both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
polymerase	Yes	No	No	No
DNA polymerase	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, DNA polymerase is a hyponym of polymerase; that is, DNA polymerase is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than polymerase:

polymerase: an enzyme that catalyzes the formation of new DNA and RNA from an existing strand of DNA or RNA
DNA polymerase: the enzyme responsible for DNA replication

Other hyponyms of polymerase include RNA polymerase, transcriptase, reverse transcriptase.

polymerase (noun)	DNA polymerase (noun)
an enzyme that catalyzes the formation of new DNA and RNA from an existing strand of DNA or RNA	the enzyme responsible for DNA replication

polymerase vs DNA polymerase

polymerase and DNA polymerase both are nouns.

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