de·ox·y·ri·bo·nu·cle·ic acid
(dē-ŏk′sē-rī′bō-no͞o-klē′ĭk, -klā′-, -nyo͞o-)n.
DNA.
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deoxyribonucleic acid
(diːˌɒksɪˌraɪbəʊnjuːˈkleɪɪk) ordesoxyribonucleic acid
n
(Biochemistry) the full name for DNA
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DNA
deoxyribonucleic acid: an extremely long, double-stranded nucleic acid molecule arranged as a double helix that is the main constituent of the chromosome and that carries the genes as segments along its strands: found chiefly in the chromatin of cells and in many viruses.
[1930–35]
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de·ox·y·ri·bo·nu·cle·ic acid
(dē-ŏk′sē-rī′bō-no͞o-klē′ĭk) See DNA.
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deoxyribonucleic acid
1. (DNA) A molecule found in a cell nucleus that carries genetic information.
2. (DNA) A nucleic acid in the cell’s chromosomes, which contains the cell’s coded genetic instructions. See gene.
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| Noun | 1. |  deoxyribonucleic acid - (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"cistron, gene, factor - (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity; "genes were formerly called factors" operon - a segment of DNA containing adjacent genes including structural genes and an operator gene and a regulatory gene biochemistry - the organic chemistry of compounds and processes occurring in organisms; the effort to understand biology within the context of chemistry base pair - one of the pairs of chemical bases joined by hydrogen bonds that connect the complementary strands of a DNA molecule or of an RNA molecule that has two strands; the base pairs are adenine with thymine and guanine with cytosine in DNA and adenine with uracil and guanine with cytosine in RNA adenine, A - (biochemistry) purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with thymine in DNA and with uracil in RNA cDNA, complementary DNA - single-stranded DNA that is complementary to messenger RNA or DNA that has been synthesized from messenger RNA by reverse transcriptase episome - DNA that is not incorporated into the genome but is replicated together with the genome (especially in bacterial cells) coding DNA, exon - sequence of a gene's DNA that transcribes into protein structures; "exons are interspersed with introns" intron, noncoding DNA - sequence of a eukaryotic gene's DNA that is not translated into a protein junk DNA - stretches of DNA that do not code for genes; "most of the genome consists of junk DNA" recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid, recombinant DNA - genetically engineered DNA made by recombining fragments of DNA from different organisms sticky end - an end of DNA in which one strand of the double helix extends a few units beyond the other jumping gene, transposon - a segment of DNA that can become integrated at many different sites along a chromosome (especially a segment of bacterial DNA that can be translocated as a whole) nucleic acid - (biochemistry) any of various macromolecules composed of nucleotide chains that are vital constituents of all living cells polymer - a naturally occurring or synthetic compound consisting of large molecules made up of a linked series of repeated simple monomers |
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Translations
àcid desoxiribonucleic
deoksiribonukleiinihappo
acide désoxyribonucléique
acido desoxyribonucleic
acido desossiribonucleico
デオキシリボ核酸
deoksiribonukleinine rūgštis
dezoksiribonukleīnskābe
desoxyribonucleïnezuur
kwas dezoksyrybonukleinowy
ácido desoxirribonucléico
acidul dezoxiribonucleic
deoxyribonukleová kyselina
dezoksiribonukleinska kiselinaдезоксирибонуклеинска киселина
deoxiribonukleinsyra
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
deoxyribonucleic acid
n → Desoxyribonukleinsäure f
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deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
n ácido desoxirribonucleico (ADN)English-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.