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

1 sense of exonuclease

Sense 1
exonuclease -- (a nuclease that releases one nucleotide at a time (serially) beginning at one of a nucleic acid)
       => nuclease -- (general term for enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleic acid by cleaving chains of nucleotides into smaller units)