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exonucleolytic

exonucleolytic adjective: that cleaves nucleic acid by the removal of single nucleotides from the end of the chain.

Adjective

exonucleolytic (comparative more exonucleolytic, superlative most exonucleolytic)

  1. That cleaves nucleic acid by the removal of single nucleotides from the end of the chain

Forms of exonucleolytic

comparativemore exonucleolytic
superlativemost exonucleolytic

Origin of exonucleolytic

From exo- + nucleolytic.

Words formed from exonucleolytic

Questions about exonucleolytic

What does exonucleolytic mean?
Exonucleolytic means that cleaves nucleic acid by the removal of single nucleotides from the end of the chain.
What part of speech is exonucleolytic?
Exonucleolytic is an adjective.

Words near exonucleolytic in the dictionary

  1. exonucleases
  2. exonucleasic
  3. exonucleated
  4. exonucleation
  5. exonucleolysis
  6. exonucleolytic
  7. exonucleolytically
  8. exonucleotide
  9. exonucleotides
  10. exonull
  11. exonumia

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