RESTRICTION ENZYME as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • 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
   Synonym(s)
   • restriction endonuclease (what does restriction endonuclease mean?)
   • restriction nuclease (what does restriction nuclease mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) restriction enzyme is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • endonuclease (what does endonuclease mean?)