nucleic acid

English

Etymology

nucleic + acid

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /njuːˈkliː.ɪk ˈæsɪd/, /njuːˈkleɪ.ɪk ˈæsɪd/
• IPA^(key): /nuˈkleɪ.ɪk ˈæsɪd/

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Noun

nucleic acid (countable and uncountable, plural nucleic acids)

1. (biochemistry, genetics) Any acidic, chainlike biological macromolecule consisting of multiply repeat units of phosphoric acid, sugar and purine and pyrimidine bases; they are involved in the preservation, replication and expression of hereditary information in every living cell

Derived terms

Derived terms

• nucleic acid analogue (XNA)
• bridged nucleic acid (BNA)
• deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
• glycol nucleic acid (GNA)
• locked nucleic acid (LNA)
• peptide nucleic acid (PNA)
• ribonucleic acid (RNA)
• spherical nucleic acid (SNA)
• threonucleic acid (TNA)
• threose nucleic acid (TNA)
• unlocked nucleic acid (UNA)
• xeno nucleic acid (XNA)

Translations

acidic chainlike biological macromolecule

• Catalan: àcid nucleic m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 核酸 (hat⁶ syun¹)

  Hakka: 核酸 (fu̍t-sôn)

  Mandarin: 核酸 (zh) (hésuān)

  Min Nan: 核酸 (hu̍t-sng, he̍k-sng)

• Czech: nukleová kyselina f
• Dutch: nucleïnezuur (nl) n, kernzuur n
• Esperanto: nuklea acido
• Faroese: kjarnasýra f
• Finnish: nukleiinihappo (fi), tumahappo
• French: acide nucléique (fr)
• German: Nukleinsäure (de) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: νουκλεϊκό οξύ n (noukleïkó oxý)
• Hungarian: nukleinsav (hu)
• Icelandic: kjarnasýra f
• Italian: acido nucleico (it) m
• Japanese: 核酸 (ja) (かくさん, kakusan)
• Kazakh: нуклеин қышқылы (nuklein qyşqyly)
• Polish: kwasy nukleinowe
• Portuguese: ácido nucleico m
• Romanian: acid nucleic (ro) m
• Russian: нуклеи́новая кислота́ (ru) f (nukleínovaja kislotá)
• Slovak: nukleová kyselina f
• Spanish: ácido nucleico m
• Swedish: nukleinsyra (sv) c

See also

• DNA
• RNA
• nucleoside
• nucleotide