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

1 sense of restriction nuclease

Sense 1
restriction endonuclease, restriction nuclease, restriction enzyme -- (any of the enzymes that cut nucleic acid at specific restriction sites and produce restriction fragments; obtained from bacteria (where they cripple viral invaders); used in recombinant DNA technology)
       => endonuclease -- (a nuclease that cleaves nucleic acids at interior bonds and so produces fragments of various sizes)