Home / Thesaurus / deoxyribonucleic acid
Thesaurus: deoxyribonucleic acid
(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
Related headwords
associateddefinitionbiochemistrydefinitioncelldefinitiondoubledefinitionformeddefinitionfounddefinitiongeneticdefinitionhelixdefinitioninformationdefinitionlikedefinitionlineardefinitionlongdefinitionnucleotidesdefinitionnucleusdefinitionpolymerdefinitionshapeddefinitiontransmissiondefinitiondeoxygenatedfamilydeoxygenatingfamilydeoxygenationfamilydeoxygenizefamilydeoxyguanosinefamilydeoxyguanosine monophosphatefamilydeoxyguanylatefamilydeoxyguanylic acidfamilydeoxynucleotidefamilydeoxynucleotidesfamilydeoxyribonucleotidesfamily
Definitions
- 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