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deoxyribonucleic acids

deoxyribonucleic acids is the plural of deoxyribonucleic acid.

Meaning of deoxyribonucleic acid

Noun

deoxyribonucleic acid (countable and uncountable, plural deoxyribonucleic acids)

  1. 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.
    • Meronym: nucleotide

Questions about deoxyribonucleic acids

What is deoxyribonucleic acids the plural of?
Deoxyribonucleic acids is the plural of deoxyribonucleic acid.

Words near deoxyribonucleic acids in the dictionary

  1. deoxyribonucleases
  2. deoxyribonucleate
  3. deoxyribonucleates
  4. deoxyribonucleic
  5. deoxyribonucleic acid
  6. deoxyribonucleic acids
  7. deoxyribonucleoprotein
  8. deoxyribonucleoproteins
  9. deoxyribonucleoside
  10. deoxyribonucleosides
  11. deoxyribonucleotidase

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