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Nucleic acid has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

(biochemistry) any of various macromolecules composed of nucleotide chains that are vital constituents of all living cells

2

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

Related Terms
nucleocapsid biomolecule cell deoxyribose nucleic acid polyadenylate cofolding pseudoexon phosphorothioate lytic cycle purine endonuclease pseudorecombination macromolecule nucleate homorepeat nucleofection ribose dipyrimidine giant virus locked nucleic acid
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
macromolecule
Rhyming Words
cid acid scid picid arcid alcid mucid lucid ficid lycid coccid esocid odacid marcid muscid raucid chacid viscid caecid diacid
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