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

1 sense of reverse transcriptase

Sense 1
reverse transcriptase -- (a polymerase that catalyzes the formation of DNA using RNA as a template; found especially in retroviruses)
       => polymerase -- (an enzyme that catalyzes the formation of new DNA and RNA from an existing strand of DNA or RNA)