DNAzyme
Noun
Meaning
DNAzyme (plural DNAzymes)
(biochemistry) Synonym of deoxyribozyme
Examples
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.
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.