Nuclease enzymes helps in digesting DNA and RNA present in our dietary substances.

What do nucleases break down?

Nucleases are enzymes that are specially designed to break apart the nucleotides that make up the nucleic acids DNA and RNA. Nucleotides are composed of adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine in DNA, with uracil replacing thymine in RNA. Nucleases come in and cleave these nucleotides apart from one another.

What does deoxyribonuclease break down?

deoxyribonuclease: any of several enzymes that break down the double-stranded or single-stranded DNA molecule into its component nucleotides.