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dna

UK/ˌdiːɛnˈeɪ/US/ˌdiˌɛnˈeɪ/
nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechneutral

DNA is the twisted ladder molecule that carries the recipe for you. A DNA test.

Uncoiled, the DNA in one person would reach to the sun and back many times over. DNA is also used loosely of whatever is essential to a company or a place.

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Definitions of dna

  1. 1noundnaThe twisted ladder molecule that carries the recipe for you.B2

    “The DNA matched a sample taken thirty years earlier.”

dna is a molecule.

Where it comes from

DNA The noun is an deoxyribonucleic acid. The verb is derived from the noun.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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