polymerase vs transcriptase

polymerase and transcriptase both are nouns.

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

As nouns, transcriptase is a hyponym of polymerase; that is, transcriptase 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
transcriptase: the enzyme that copies DNA into RNA

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

polymerase (noun)	transcriptase (noun)
an enzyme that catalyzes the formation of new DNA and RNA from an existing strand of DNA or RNA	the enzyme that copies DNA into RNA

polymerase vs transcriptase

polymerase and transcriptase both are nouns.

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