deoxyribonucleic acid, n.
(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
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DNA deoxyribonucleic acid desoxyribonucleic acid
sample sentences
"DNA is the king of molecules"
semantic pointers
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operon
complementary DNA, cDNA
episome
exon, coding DNA
intron, noncoding DNA
junk DNA
recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid, recombinant DNA
sticky end
transposon, jumping gene
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