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English noun: desoxyribonucleic acid | |||
| 1. | desoxyribonucleic 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 | ||
| Samples | DNA is the king of molecules. | ||
| Synonyms | deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | polymer | ||
| 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 | ||
| Part holonym | base pair, cistron, factor, gene, nucleic acid | ||
| Substance holonym | A, adenine, C, cytosine, G, guanine, T, thymine | ||
| Domain category | biochemistry | ||
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