transcriptase

transcriptase definition - medical

tran·scrip·tase (trăn-skrĭpˈtās, -tāz)

noun
  1. A polymerase that catalyzes the formation of RNA from a DNA template in the process of transcription.
  2. Reverse transcriptase.

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