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Definition of Desoxyribonucleic 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"
Exact synonyms: Deoxyribonucleic Acid, Dna
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
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 Desoxyribonucleic acid
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of deoxyribonucleic acid) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desoxyribonucleic Acid
Literary usage of Desoxyribonucleic acid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. In the Matter of Certain Recombinantly Produced Human Growth Hormones by DIANE Publishing Company (1997)
"... that the basic and universal chemical constituent of the gene is desoxyribonucleic
acid, commonly called DNA; that it is believed that a gene is a giant ..."
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