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Definition of Deoxyribonucleic acid
1. Noun. (biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transmission of genetic information. "DNA is the king of molecules"
Terms within: Cistron, Factor, Gene, Base Pair, Nucleic Acid
Specialized synonyms: Operon, Cdna, Complementary Dna, Episome, Coding Dna, Exon, Intron, Noncoding Dna, Junk Dna, Recombinant Deoxyribonucleic Acid, Recombinant Dna, Sticky End, Jumping Gene, Transposon
Category relationships: Biochemistry
Terms within: A, Adenine, C, Cytosine, G, Guanine, T, Thymine
Generic synonyms: Polymer
Definition of Deoxyribonucleic acid
1. Noun. (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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Deoxyribonucleic acid
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