polymerase
noun
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an enzyme that catalyzes the formation of new DNA and RNA from an existing strand of DNA or RNA
Types & categories
- enzyme hypernym
- DNA polymerase hyponym
- transcriptase hyponym
- reverse transcriptase hyponym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | enzyme |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | DNA polymerase |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | transcriptase |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | reverse transcriptase |