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Polymerase

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of various enzymes that catalyze the formation of polymers of DNA or RNA using an existing strand of RNA or DNA respectively as a template.
  2. 2
    an enzyme that catalyzes the formation of new DNA and RNA from an existing strand of DNA or RNA wordnet

Etymology

From polymer + -ase.

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