deoxyribonucleic acid

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /di.ɒk.sɪˌɹaɪ.bəʊ.njuːˈkleɪ.ɪk ˈæ.sɪd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /di.ɔk.siˌɹaɪ.boʊ.nuːˈkleɪ.ɪk ˈæ.sɪd/

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Noun

deoxyribonucleic acid (plural deoxyribonucleic acids)

1. (biochemistry, genetics) A nucleic acid found in all living things (and some non-living things such as certain viruses) which consists of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix; encoded in its structure are genetic instructions for development, functioning, growth, and reproduction.

   Synonyms: deoxyribose nucleic acid, desoxyribose nucleic acid, double helix, (abbreviation) DNA

   Meronym: nucleotide

Alternative forms

• desoxyribonucleic acid

Related terms

• nucleic acid
• ribonucleic acid (RNA)
• peptide nucleic acid (PNA)
• threose nucleic acid (TNA)
• glycol nucleic acid (GNA)

Translations

deoxyribonucleic acid

Arabic: حِمْض نَوَوِيّ رِيبِيّ مَنْقُوص الأُكْسِجِين m (ḥimḍ nawawiyy rībiyy manqūṣ al-ʔuksijīn) Armenian: դեզօքսիռիբոնուկլեինաթթու (hy) (dezōkʻsiṙibonukleinatʻtʻu) Asturian: ácidu desoxirribonucleico n Azerbaijani: dezoksiribonuklein turşusu Basque: azido desoxirribonukleiko Belarusian: дэзоксірыбануклеі́навая кіслата́ f (dezoksirybanukljeínavaja kislatá) Catalan: àcid desoxiribonucleic (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 脫氧核糖核酸 / 脱氧核糖核酸 (tyut3 joeng5 hat6 tong4 hat6 syun1), 去氧核糖核酸 (heoi3 joeng5 hat6 tong4 hat6 syun1) Hakka: 脫氧核糖核酸 / 脱氧核糖核酸 (thot-yông fu̍t-thòng fu̍t-sôn) Mandarin: 脫氧核糖核酸 / 脱氧核糖核酸 (zh) (tuōyǎng hétáng hésuān), 去氧核糖核酸 (zh) (qùyǎng hétáng hésuān) Czech: deoxyribonukleová kyselina (cs) f Dutch: desoxyribonucleïnezuur (nl) Esperanto: deoksiribonuklea acido Extremaduran: aceu desoxirribonucleicu m Finnish: deoksiribonukleiinihappo French: acide désoxyribonucléique (fr) m Galician: ácido desoxirribonucleico (gl) m Georgian: დეზოქსირიბონუკლეინის მჟავა (dezoksiribonuḳleinis mžava) German: Desoxyribonukleinsäure (de) f Greek: δεσοξυριβοζονουκλεϊνικό οξύ (el) pl (desoxyrivozonoukleïnikó oxý), δεοξυριβονουκλεϊκό οξύ pl (deoxyrivonoukleïkó oxý) Hebrew: חומצה דאוקסיריבונוקלאית (he) f (khumtsá deoksiribonuklé'it) Hungarian: dezoxiribonukleinsav (hu) Icelandic: deoxýríbósakjarnsýra (is) f Indonesian: asam deoksiribonukleat (id) Interlingua: acido desoxyribonucleic Irish: aigéad dí-ocsairibeanúicléasach m Italian: acido desossiribonucleico m, acido deossiribonucleico m Japanese: デオキシリボ核酸 (ja) (deokishiribo kakusan) Javanese: asem dhéyoksiribonukléyat Kazakh: дезоксирибонуклеин қышқылы (dezoksiribonuklein qyşqyly) Korean: 디옥시리보핵산 (dioksiribohaeksan) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: asîda deoksîrîbonukleyî f Latvian: dezoksiribonukleīnskābe Lithuanian: deoksiribonukleorugštis f Malay: asid deoksiribonukleik Mongolian: Cyrillic: дезоксирибонуклейны хүчил (dezoksiribonuklejny xüčil), хүчилтөрөгч үгэйдүүлсэн бөөм чихрийн бөөм хүчил (xüčiltörögč ügejdüülsen bööm čixriin bööm xüčil) (China) Mongolian: ᠬᠦᠴᠢᠯᠲᠥ᠋ᠷᠥᠭᠴᠢ ᠦᠭᠡᠶᠢᠳᠡᠭᠦᠯᠦᠭᠰᠡᠨ ᠪᠥᠭᠡᠮ ᠰᠢᠬᠢᠷ ᠤᠨ ᠪᠥᠭᠡᠮ ᠬᠦᠴᠢᠯ (küčiltöröɣči ügeyidegülüɣsen bögem sikir-un bögem küčil) Polish: kwas deoksyrybonukleinowy (pl) m, kwas dezoksyrybonukleinowy (pl) m Portuguese: ácido desoxirribonucleico (pt) m (Portugal), ácido desoxirribonucléico m (Brazil) Romanian: acid dezoxiribonucleic (ro) m Russian: дезоксирибонуклеи́новая кислота́ (ru) f (dɛzoksiribonukleínovaja kislotá) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: дезоксирибонуклеинска киселина f Roman: dezoksiribonukleinska kiselina f Slovak: deoxyribonukleová kyselina f Slovene: deoksiribonukleinska kislina f Spanish: ácido desoxirribonucleico (es) m Swedish: deoxiribonukleinsyra (sv) c Turkish: deoksiribonükleik asit Ukrainian: дезоксирибонуклеї́нова кислота́ f (dezoksyrybonuklejínova kyslotá) Vietnamese: axit đêôxiribônuclêic

See also

• unlocked nucleic acid (UNA)
• locked nucleic acid (LNA)
• bridged nucleic acid (BNA)

Further reading

• DNA on Wikipedia.Wikipedia