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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A polymerase that catalyzes the synthesis of a complementary strand of RNA from a DNA template, or, in some viruses, from an RNA template.
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- noun the enzyme that copies DNA into RNA
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