reverse transcriptase

1. 1.

   a polymerase that catalyzes the formation of DNA using RNA as a template; found especially in retroviruses

   Broaderpolymerase

Questions about reverse transcriptase

What does reverse transcriptase mean?

reverse transcriptase means "a polymerase that catalyzes the formation of DNA using RNA as a template; found especially in retroviruses".

Is reverse transcriptase a common word?

reverse transcriptase 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.