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Enzyme vs Polymerase - What's the difference?

enzyme | polymerase |

As nouns the difference between enzyme and polymerase

is that enzyme is a globular protein that catalyses a biological chemical reaction while polymerase is 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.

enzyme

English

(wikipedia enzyme)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (biochemistry) A globular protein that catalyses a biological chemical reaction.

    • Derived terms

    * adaptive enzyme * apoenzyme * coenzyme * haloenzyme * holoenzyme * ribozyme ----

    polymerase

    English

    (wikipedia polymerase)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (enzyme) 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.

    • See also

    * reverse transcriptase * transcriptase