Medical Dictionary
exonuclease
noun exo·nu·cle·ase \ˌek-sō-ˈn(y)ü-klē-ˌās, -ˌāz\
Medical Definition of EXONUCLEASE
: an enzyme that breaks down a nucleic acid by removing nucleotides one by one from the end of a chain—compare endonuclease
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