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deoxyribonucleic

a. (context genetics English) Of or pertaining to deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or its derivatives

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Usage examples of "deoxyribonucleic".

It could be programmed to output any sequence of deoxyribonucleic acid or ribonucleic acid imaginable, along with associated proteins.

But your sperm contain only twenty-four chromosomes, with just half your deoxyribonucleic acid.

But if we sequenced your deoxyribonucleic acid, we could choose the better one of each pair of traits you yourself had inherited, and then we could manufacture a haploid set of chromosomes containing only those better traits.

We just feed in a sample of deoxyribonucleic acid, and let it analyze it.

With the codon writer, we will make a diploid set of chromosomes combining deoxyribonucleic acid from both of you.

It also seemed to be able to produce associated proteins, such as those used to bind deoxyribonucleic acid into chromosomes.

And Mary, by that definition, was a specialized sort of chemist, focusing on deoxyribonucleic acid.

In exchange for a substantial payment, Judge Stratus had promised to alert his patrons at Pollifex Farm the instant he happened upon a blood sample bearing the deoxyribonucleic acid component known as QZ-11-4.

DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, served as the tapes, and not until 1953 that James Dewey Watson, Francis Harry Compton Crick, and Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins worked out the structure of DNA and how it functioned.

But your sperm contain only twenty-four chromosomes, with just half your deoxyribonucleic acid.

The precise assembly of the amino acids into the appropriate sequence depends on another giant molecule in the cell, ribonucleic acid (RNA), whose synthesis is in turn directly under the control of the cell's genetic material, deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA.

This can be either Ribonucleic acid (RNA) or Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).

The acronym for deoxyribonucleic acid, which encodes genetic information.

Bundles of data, protein chains called deoxyribonucleic acid, order the birth, growth, and to an extent, the behavior of organic machines which carry it prior to its self-replication.

Jason was well aware that deoxyribonucleic acid, better known as DNA, was a molecule, shaped like a twisted, double-stranded string.