Noun
DNAzyme (plural DNAzymes)
(biochemistry) Synonym of deoxyribozyme
After only a few weeks, a DNAzyme with significant catalytic activity had evolved. citation In general, DNA is much more chemically inert than RNA and hence much more resistant to obtaining catalytic properties. Source: Internet
For instance, an arbitrarily chosen 50-nucleotide DNA fragment encoding for the Bos taurus (cattle) albumin mRNA was subjected to test-tube evolution to derive a catalytic DNA (DNAzyme) with RNA-cleavage activity. Source: Internet