Nucleic Acid Definition

no͝o-klēĭk, -klā-, nyo͝o-
noun

Any of a group of essential, complex organic acids found in all living cells: the two types, DNA and RNA, consist of long chains of nucleotide units with each unit composed of phosphoric acid, a carbohydrate, and a base derived from purine or pyrimidine.

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Other Word Forms of Nucleic Acid

Noun

Singular:
nucleic acid
Plural:
nucleic-acids

Origin of Nucleic Acid

Nucleic Acid Sentence Examples

  • It appears to be a combination of a protein with nucleic acid.

  • For example scientists so far have failed to find a scrapie prion nucleic acid.

  • Ribo nucleic acid (RNA) always contains the sugar ribose.

  • In the yeast cell the nucleus is represented by a homogenous granule, probably of a nucleolar nature, surrounded and perhaps to some extent impregnated by chromatin and closely connected with a vacuole which often has chromatin at its periphery, and contains one or more volutin granules which appear to consist of nucleic acid in combination with an unknown base.

  • Prions are rather ill-defined infectious agents believed to consist of a single type of protein molecule with no nucleic acid component.

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Words Starting With

NNUNUC

Words Ending With

DIDCID

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nucleic acid

Words Starting With N and Ending With D

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