deoxyribonucleic acid

English

Structural diagram of a DNA molecule.

Noun

deoxyribonucleic acid (uncountable) (abbreviation DNA)

1. (genetics, biochemistry) A nucleic acid found in all living things (and some non-living, see virus); consists of a polymer formed from nucleotides which are shaped into a double helix; it is associated with the transmission of genetic information.

Alternative forms

• desoxyribonucleic acid

Synonyms

• deoxyribose nucleic acid
• desoxyribose nucleic acid

Meronyms

• nucleotide

Translations

deoxyribonucleic acid

• Armenian: դեզօքսիռիբոնուկլեինաթթու (dezōkʿsiṙibonukleinatʿtʿu)
• Basque: azido desoxirribonukleiko
• 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 (zh), 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
• Finnish: deoksiribonukleiinihappo
• French: acide désoxyribonucléique (fr) m
• Galician: ácido desoxirribonucleico m
• 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
• Italian: acido desossiribonucleico m, acido deossiribonucleico m
• Japanese: デオキシリボ核酸 (ja) (deokishiribo kakusan)
• Korean: 디옥시리보핵산 (dioksiribohaeksan)
• Latvian: dezoksiribonukleīnskābe
• Lithuanian: deoksiribonukleorugštis f
• Malay: asid deoksiribonukleik
• Polish: kwas dezoksyrybonukleinowy (pl) m inan
• 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
• Spanish: ácido desoxirribonucleico (es) m
• Swedish: deoxiribonukleinsyra (sv) c
• Turkish: deoksiribonükleik asit

Related terms

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

See also

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