polymerase

See also: Polymerase and polymérase

English

Etymology

polymer +‎ -ase

Pronunciation

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Noun

polymerase (plural polymerases)

1. (biochemistry) Any of various enzymes that catalyze the formation of polymers of DNA or RNA using an existing strand of RNA or DNA respectively as a template.

Derived terms

• depolymerase
• DNA polymerase
• polymerase chain reaction
• RNA polymerase
• Taq polymerase
• xenopolymerase

 

Translations

enzyme that catalyses the formation of polymers

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 聚合酶 (zeoi⁶ hap⁶ mui⁴)

  Mandarin: 聚合酶 (zh) (jùhéméi)

• Finnish: polymeraasi
• French: polymérase (fr)
• German: Polymerase (de) f
• Greek: πολυμεράση (el) f (polymerási)
• Hindi: बहुलकेद (bahulaked)
• Indonesian: polimerase (id)
• Italian: polimerasi (it)
• Maori: whākōkī waerau
• Mongolian:
• Cyrillic: полимераз (polimeraz), нийлмэл исгүүр (niilmel isgüür) (China)
• Mongolian: ᠫᠣᠯᠢᠮᠧᠷᠠᠽ (polimēraz), ᠨᠡᠢᠯᠡᠮᠡᠯ
  ᠢᠰᠬᠡᠭᠦᠷ (neilemel iskegür)
• Portuguese: polimerase (pt)
• Russian: полимераза (ru) f (polimeraza)
• Spanish: polimerasa f

See also

• reverse transcriptase
• transcriptase