Sinonim polymerase

English Thesaurus

1. an enzyme that catalyzes the formation of new DNA and RNA from an existing strand of DNA or RNA (noun.substance)

hypernym	:	enzyme,
definition	:	any of several complex proteins that are produced by cells and act as catalysts in specific biochemical reactions (noun.substance)

hyponym	:	dna polymerase,
definition	:	the enzyme responsible for DNA replication (noun.substance)

hyponym	:	rna polymerase, transcriptase,
definition	:	the enzyme that copies DNA into RNA (noun.substance)

hyponym	:	reverse transcriptase,
definition	:	a polymerase that catalyzes the formation of DNA using RNA as a template; found especially in retroviruses (noun.substance)