Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nucleotidyltransferase

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: nu-cleotidyl-trans-ferase
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

22

Letters

4

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any enzyme that transfers nucleotide residues

Etymology

Etymology tree English nucleotide Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der. Frenchder. English -yl English transferase English nucleotidyltransferase From nucleotide + -yl + transferase.

Inflected Forms

nucleotidyltransferases (plural)

Questions

What does nucleotidyltransferase mean?: Any enzyme that transfers nucleotide residues
Where does nucleotidyltransferase come from?: Etymology tree English nucleotide Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der. Frenchder. English -yl English transferase English nucleotidyltransferase From nucleotide + -yl + transferase.

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