English noun: deoxyribonucleic acid |
1. | deoxyribonucleic acid (substance) (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 |
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| Samples | DNA is the king of molecules.
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| Synonyms | desoxyribonucleic acid, DNA |
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| Broader (hypernym) | polymer |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | cDNA, coding DNA, complementary DNA, episome, exon, intron, jumping gene, junk DNA, noncoding DNA, operon, recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid, recombinant DNA, sticky end, transposon |
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| Part holonym | base pair, cistron, factor, gene, nucleic acid |
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| Substance holonym | A, adenine, C, cytosine, G, guanine, T, thymine |
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| Domain category | biochemistry |
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