deoxyribonucleic acid

deoxyribonucleic acid

English

Structural diagram of a DNA molecule.

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Noun

deoxyribonucleic acid (uncountable)

1. (genetics, biochemistry) A nucleic acid found in all living things (and some non-living, see virus); consists of a polymer formed from nucleotides which are shaped into a double helix; it is associated with the transmission of genetic information.

   Synonyms: deoxyribose nucleic acid, desoxyribose nucleic acid, double helix, (abbreviation) DNA

   Meronym: nucleotide

Alternative forms

• desoxyribonucleic acid

Related terms

• nucleic acid
• ribonucleic acid (RNA)
• peptide nucleic acid (PNA)
• threose nucleic acid (TNA)
• glycol nucleic acid (GNA)

Translations

deoxyribonucleic acid

Armenian: դեզօքսիռիբոնուկլեինաթթու (hy) (dezōkʿsiṙibonukleinatʿtʿu) Asturian: ácidu desoxirribonucleico n Azerbaijani: dezoksiribonuklein turşusu Basque: azido desoxirribonukleiko Catalan: àcid desoxiribonucleic (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 脫氧核糖核酸, 脱氧核糖核酸 (tyut3 joeng5 hat6 tong4 hat6 syun1), 去氧核糖核酸 (heoi3 joeng5 hat6 tong4 hat6 syun1) Hakka: 脫氧核糖核酸, 脱氧核糖核酸 (thot-yông fu̍t-thòng fu̍t-sôn) Mandarin: 脫氧核糖核酸／脱氧核糖核酸 (zh) (tuōyǎng hétáng hésuān), 去氧核糖核酸 (zh) (qùyǎng hétáng hésuān) Czech: deoxyribonukleová kyselina f Dutch: desoxyribonucleïnezuur (nl) Esperanto: deoksiribonuklea acido Extremaduran: aceu desoxirribonucleicu m Finnish: deoksiribonukleiinihappo French: acide désoxyribonucléique (fr) m Galician: ácido desoxirribonucleico (gl) m German: Desoxyribonukleinsäure (de) f Greek: δεσοξυριβοζονουκλεϊνικό οξύ (el) pl (desoxyrivozonoukleïnikó oxý), δεοξυριβονουκλεϊκό οξύ pl (deoxyrivonoukleïkó oxý) Hebrew: חומצה דאוקסיריבונוקלאית‎ (he) f (khumtsá deóksiribonucléit) Hungarian: dezoxiribonukleinsav (hu) Icelandic: deoxýríbósakjarnsýra (is) f Indonesian: asam deoksiribonukleat (id) Interlingua: acido desoxyribonucleic Irish: aigéad dí-ocsairibeanúicléasach m Italian: acido desossiribonucleico m, acido deossiribonucleico m Japanese: デオキシリボ核酸 (ja) (deokishiribo kakusan) Javanese: asem dhéyoksiribonukléyat Kazakh: дезоксирибонуклеин қышқылы (dezoksiribonuklein qyşqyly) Korean: 디옥시리보핵산 (dioksiribohaeksan) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: asîda deoksîrîbonukleyî f Latvian: dezoksiribonukleīnskābe Lithuanian: deoksiribonukleorugštis f Malay: asid deoksiribonukleik Polish: kwas deoksyrybonukleinowy (pl) m, kwas dezoksyrybonukleinowy (pl) m Portuguese: ácido desoxirribonucleico (pt) m (Portugal), ácido desoxirribonucléico m (Brazil) Romanian: acid dezoxiribonucleic (ro) m Russian: дезоксирибонуклеи́новая кислота́ (ru) f (dɛzoksiribonukleínovaja kislotá) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: дезоксирибонуклеинска киселина f Roman: dezoksiribonukleinska kiselina f Slovak: deoxyribonukleová kyselina f Spanish: ácido desoxirribonucleico (es) m Swedish: deoxiribonukleinsyra (sv) c Turkish: deoksiribonükleik asit

See also

• unlocked nucleic acid (UNA)
• locked nucleic acid (LNA)
• bridged nucleic acid (BNA)

Further reading

• DNA on Wikipedia.Wikipedia