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PNA

PNA is the initialism of personal navigation assistant.

PNA is the initialism of peptide nucleic acid.

PNA is the initialism of pulmonary nodular amyloidosis.

PNA is the initialism of Palestinian National Authority.

PNA is the initialism of Polish National Alliance.

PNA is the initialism of Philippine News Agency.

Meaning of peptide nucleic acid

Noun

peptide nucleic acid (plural peptide nucleic acids)

  1. A synthetic organic polymer similar to DNA or RNA; the sugar backbone of nucleic acids is replaced by N-(2-aminoethyl)-glycine linked through peptide bonds - considered a possible precursor to RNA
    Synonyms:
    PNA

Synonyms of PNA

Forms of PNA

pluralPNAs

Questions about PNA

What is PNA the initialism of?
PNA is the initialism of personal navigation assistant.

Words near PNA in the dictionary

  1. PMTs
  2. PMU
  3. PMV
  4. PMVs
  5. PN
  6. PNA
  7. Pnar
  8. PNAS
  9. PNC
  10. PNCs
  11. PND

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Adapted from Wiktionary: PNA (page history and authors); peptide nucleic acid (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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