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exonucleolytic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ex-onu-cle-olyt-ic
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

That cleaves nucleic acid by the removal of single nucleotides from the end of the chain

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs Proto-Hellenic *eks Ancient Greek ἐκ (ek) Ancient Greek ἔξω (éxō)der. English exo- English nucleolytic English exonucleolytic From exo- + nucleolytic.

Inflected Forms

more exonucleolytic (comparative) most exonucleolytic (superlative)

Derived Forms

exonucleolytically

Frequently Paired Words

exonuclease

Questions

What does exonucleolytic mean?
That cleaves nucleic acid by the removal of single nucleotides from the end of the chain
Where does exonucleolytic come from?
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs Proto-Hellenic *eks Ancient Greek ἐκ (ek) Ancient Greek ἔξω (éxō)der. English exo- English nucleolytic English exonucleolytic From exo- + nucleolytic.

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