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Categories: EC 3.1, Life sciences industry, Restriction enzymes, Molecular biology, Biotechnology
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restriction endonuclease  restriction nuclease  restriction enzyme  artificial restriction enzyme  Deoxyribonuclease hindiii
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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 WordNet 3.0
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A restriction enzyme, restriction endonuclease, REase, ENase or restrictase is an enzyme that cleaves DNA into fragments at or near specific recognition sites within molecules known as restriction sites. Wikipedia
A type of enzyme that cleaves genetic material Wikipedia Disambiguation
Class of enzymes that cleaves DNA into fragments at or near specific recognition sites within the molecule known as restriction sites Wikidata
An enzyme that cuts double-stranded DNA. The enzyme makes two incisions, one through each of the sugar-phosphate backbones (i.e., each strand) of the double helix without damaging the nitrogenous bases. OmegaWiki
An endonuclease that catalyzes double-strand cleavage of DNA containing a specific sequence. Wiktionary