DNA

See also dna

English

Wikipedia

Initialism

DNA

1. Defense Nuclear Agency.
2. Did Not Answer.
3. Did Not Arrive (used when someone fails to keep an appointment).
4. Did Not Attend.
5. Do Not Assume.
6. Drugs 'n' alcohol.

Noun

DNA (uncountable)

1. A substance in living beings which determines their form, and can be used to uniquely identify a person.
2. (biochemistry) A biopolymer of deoxyribonucleic acids (a type of nucleic acid) that has four different chemical groups, called bases: adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine.

Derived terms

• junk DNA
• mitochondrial DNA
• chloroplast DNA
• DNA test
• mtDNA
• rDNA
• ssDNA
• dsDNA

Related terms

• RNA
• XNA
• PNA
• TNA
• GNA

Translations

abbreviation of deoxyribonucleic acid (see deoxyribonucleic acid for full forms)

• Afrikaans: DNS (af)
• Arabic: دنا (ar) (dinaa) f
• Armenian: ԴՆԹ (hy) (DNT’)
• Catalan: ADN (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 脫氧核糖核酸 (cmn), 脱氧核糖核酸 (cmn) (tuōyǎng hétánghésuān)

• Danish: dna (da)
• Dutch: DNA, DNZ (nl)
• Finnish: DNA (fi)
• French: ADN (fr) m
• German: DNS (de) f
• Greek: ΔΝΟ (el) (DNO)
• Hindi: डीएनए (hi) (ḍī'ēn'ē)
• Hungarian: DNS (hu)
• Icelandic: DNA (is) n DKS (is) n
• Interlingua: ADN, DNA

• Italian: DNA (it) m
• Japanese: ＤＮＡ (ja) (dī-enu-ē), ディー・エヌ・エー (ja) (dī-enu-ē)
• Latvian: DNS (lv)
• Lithuanian: DNR (lt)
• Macedonian: ДНК (mk) (DNK) f
• Polish: DNA (pl)
• Portuguese: ADN (pt)
• Romanian: ADN (ro) m
• Russian: ДНК (ru) (de-en-ká) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ДНК (sh) f

  Roman: DNK (sh) f

• Slovak: DNK (sk) f DNA (sl) n
• Slovene: DNK (sl)
• Spanish: ADN (es) m
• Turkish: DNA (tr)
• Urdu: ڈی این اے (ur) (ḍī 'ēn 'ē)

Anagrams

• ADN
• and, AND
• dan, Dan, Dan., DAN
• nad, NAD
• NDA

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Pronunciation

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Initialism

DNA

1. desoxyribonucleïnezuur (deoxyribonucleic acid)

Anagrams

• dan

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French

Abbreviation

DNA

1. Dernière Nouvelles d'Alsace ("Latest News from Alsace"), a French periodical.

Anagrams

• ADN

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Turkish

Initialism

DNA (Deoksiribonükleik asit)

1. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)