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ectonuclease

ectonuclease is the misspelling of endonuclease.

Meaning of endonuclease

Noun

endonuclease (plural endonucleases)

  1. Any enzyme which catalyzes the cleavage of nucleic acids so as to produce variously sized fragments.

Questions about ectonuclease

What is ectonuclease the misspelling of?
Ectonuclease is the misspelling of endonuclease.

Words near ectonuclease in the dictionary

  1. ectomycorrhizospheres
  2. ectomycorrizal
  3. Ecton
  4. ectoneural
  5. Ectons
  6. ectonuclease
  7. ectonucleosidase
  8. ectonucleosidases
  9. ectonucleoside
  10. ectonucleosides
  11. ectonucleotidase

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ectonuclease (page history and authors); endonuclease (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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