polymerase

1. 1.

   an enzyme that catalyzes the formation of new DNA and RNA from an existing strand of DNA or RNA

   Broaderenzyme

   NarrowerDNA polymerasetranscriptasereverse transcriptase

Other forms of polymerase

plural

polymerases·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about polymerase

What does polymerase mean?

polymerase means "an enzyme that catalyzes the formation of new DNA and RNA from an existing strand of DNA or RNA".

How many syllables are in polymerase?

polymerase has 4 syllables: po-lym-e-rase. The stress falls on "po". In IPA it is /ˈpɑˌlɪmɚˌeɪs/.

Is polymerase a common word?

polymerase is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with polymerase?

1 word rhymes with polymerase. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.