DNA
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
DNA/diːenˈeɪ/
▶noun Biochemistry deoxyribonucleic acid, a substance present in nearly all living organisms as the carrier of genetic information, and consisting of a very long double-stranded helical chain of sugars joined by phosphate bonds and cross-linked by pairs of organic bases.
'DNA' also found in these Oxford entries:
acyclovir
- adenine
- adenovirus
- amplify
- anneal
- antisense
- baculovirus
- biopolymer
- cDNA
- chromatin
- cistron
- clone
- codon
- complementary DNA
- conserve
- cytosine
- deoxyribonucleic acid
- DNA fingerprinting
- DNase
- DNA virus
- double helix
- electroporation
- ethidium bromide
- eukaryote
- exon
- gene
- genetic code
- genetic fingerprinting
- genetic screening
- guanine
- helicity
- herpesvirus
- intron
- junk DNA
- map
- messenger RNA
- molecular biology
- motif
- nucleic acid
- plasmid
- polymerase
- polymerase chain reaction
- poxvirus
- purine
- pyrimidine
- recombination
- restriction enzyme
- restriction fragment
- retrovirus
