English

exonucleolytic

From exo- + nucleolytic.

Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs ‘out of’

Proto-Hellenic *eks

Ancient Greek ἐκ ‘Out of, from’

Ancient Greek ἔξω ‘outer’

English exo-

Today it means

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

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Etymograph / exonucleolytic