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nucleic acids

nucleic acids is the plural of nucleic acid.

Meaning of nucleic acid

Noun

nucleic acid (countable and uncountable, plural nucleic acids)

  1. Any acidic, chainlike biological macromolecule consisting of multiple 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

Questions about nucleic acids

What is nucleic acids the plural of?
Nucleic acids is the plural of nucleic acid.

Words near nucleic acids in the dictionary

  1. nuclei
  2. nucleic
  3. nucleic acid
  4. nucleic acid test
  5. nucleic acid tests
  6. nucleic acids
  7. nucleicity
  8. nucleide
  9. nucleides
  10. nucleiform
  11. nucleii

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