Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun endonuclease

1 sense of endonuclease

Sense 1
endonuclease -- (a nuclease that cleaves nucleic acids at interior bonds and so produces fragments of various sizes)
       => nuclease -- (general term for enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleic acid by cleaving chains of nucleotides into smaller units)