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Exonuclease At Biology Glossary

What is it? An enzyme that cleaves nucleotides one at a time from an end of a polynucleotide chain. An enzyme that hydrolyzes phosphodiester bonds from either the 3 or 5 terminus of a polynucleotide molecules.

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