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meganuclease

meganuclease noun: an endonuclease that binds to a specific long nucleotide sequence when cleaving.

Noun

meganuclease (plural meganucleases)

  1. An endonuclease that binds to a specific long nucleotide sequence when cleaving.

Forms of meganuclease

pluralmeganucleases

Origin of meganuclease

From mega- + nuclease.

Questions about meganuclease

What does meganuclease mean?
Meganuclease means an endonuclease that binds to a specific long nucleotide sequence when cleaving.
What part of speech is meganuclease?
Meganuclease is a noun.
What is the plural of meganuclease?
The plural of meganuclease is meganucleases.

Words near meganuclease in the dictionary

  1. meganovels
  2. meganterid
  3. meganterids
  4. Meganticois
  5. meganuclear
  6. meganuclease
  7. meganucleases
  8. meganuclei
  9. meganucleotide
  10. meganucleotides
  11. meganucleus

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