deoxyribonucleic acid

Noun deoxyribonucleic acid has 1 sense

• deoxyribonucleic acid(n = noun.substance) desoxyribonucleic acid, dna - (biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transmission of genetic information; "DNA is the king of molecules"
has parts: cistron, factor, gene, base pair, nucleic acid
has particulars: operon, cdna, complementary dna, episome, coding dna, exon, intron, noncoding dna, junk dna, recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid, recombinant dna, sticky end, jumping gene, transposon
is a kind of polymer