(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
Type | Words |
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Synonyms | desoxyribonucleic acid, dna |
Type of | polymer |
Has types | junk dna, noncoding dna, sticky end, cdna, transposon, coding dna, complementary dna, recombinant dna, episome, exon, recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid, intron, operon, jumping gene |
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