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Meaning of nucleic acid

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nucleic acid

Pronunciation:/njuːˈkleɪ.ɪk ˈæsɪd//nuˈkleɪ.ɪk ˈæsɪd/

noun

Definitions

  1. Any acidic, chainlike biological macromolecule consisting of multiple 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

Sources:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nucleic%20acid

Related words

deoxyribonucleic acidpolynucleotidepeptide nucleic acidpolynucleic acidnucleohistonenucleoproteinnucleophosphoproteinnucleolipid