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Definition 2024

nucleic_acid

nucleic acid

English

Noun

nucleic acid ‎(plural nucleic acids)

(biochemistry, genetics) Any acidic, chainlike biological macromolecule consisting of multiply repeat units of phosphoric acid, sugar and purine and pyrimidine bases; they are involved in the preservation, replication and expression of hereditary information in every living cell

Translations

acidic chainlike biological macromolecule

Catalan: àcid nucleic m
Chinese:

Cantonese: 核酸 ‎(hat⁶ syun¹)

Hakka: 核酸 ‎(fu̍t-sôn)

Mandarin: 核酸 (zh) ‎(hésuān)

Min Nan: 核酸 ‎(hu̍t-sng, he̍k-sng)
Czech: nukleová kyselina f
Dutch: nucleïnezuur (nl) n, kernzuur n
Esperanto: nuklea acido
Faroese: kjarnasýra f
Finnish: nukleiinihappo (fi), tumahappo
French: acide nucléique (fr)

German: Nukleinsäure (de) f
Greek: νουκλεϊκό οξύ n ‎(noukleïkó oxý)
Hungarian: nukleinsav (hu)
Icelandic: kjarnasýra f
Italian: acido nucleico (it) m
Japanese: 核酸 (ja) ‎(かくさん, kakusan)
Polish: kwasy nukleinowe
Portuguese: ácido nucleico m
Romanian: acid nucleic (ro) m
Russian: нуклеи́новая кислота́ (ru) f ‎(nukleínovaja kislotá)
Slovak: nukleová kyselina f
Spanish: ácido nucleico m
Swedish: nukleinsyra (sv) c

Derived terms

Derived terms

ribonucleic acid (RNA)
threose nucleic acid (TNA)

unlocked nucleic acid (UNA)
locked nucleic acid (LNA)
bridged nucleic acid (BNA)

nucleic acid analogue (XNA)

See also