deoxyribonucleic acid

English

Structural diagram of a DNA molecule.

Pronunciation

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Noun

deoxyribonucleic acid (uncountable)

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

• 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 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 deóksiribonucléit)
• 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