nucleic acid

English

Etymology

nucleic + acid

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /njuːˈkliː.ɪk ˈæsɪd/, /njuːˈkleɪ.ɪk ˈæsɪd/
(US) IPA^(key): /nuˈkleɪ.ɪk ˈæsɪd/
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Noun

nucleic acid (countable and uncountable, plural nucleic acids)

(biochemistry, genetics) 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

Derived terms

Derived terms

Translations

acidic chainlike biological macromolecule

Basque: azido nukleiko
Catalan: àcid nucleic m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 核酸 (hat⁶ syun¹)

Hakka: 核酸 (het-sôn)

Mandarin: 核酸 (zh) (hésuān)

Min Nan: 核酸 (hu̍t-sng, he̍k-sng)

Teochew: 核酸 (hêg⁴ seng¹)
Czech: nukleová kyselina (cs) f
Danish: nukleinsyre c
Dutch: nucleïnezuur (nl) n, kernzuur n
Esperanto: nuklea acido
Faroese: kjarnasýra f
Finnish: nukleiinihappo (fi), tumahappo
French: acide nucléique (fr)
Galician: ácido nucleico m
German: Nukleinsäure (de) f
Greek: νουκλεϊκό οξύ n (noukleïkó oxý)
Hungarian: nukleinsav (hu)
Icelandic: kjarnsýra (is) f
Indonesian: asam nukleat (id)
Irish: aigéad núicléasach m
Italian: acido nucleico (it) m
Japanese: 核酸 (ja) (かくさん, kakusan)
Kazakh: нуклеин қышқылы (nuklein qyşqyly)
Korean: 핵산(核酸) (ko) (haeksan)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: asîda nûkleyî f, navketirş f
Malay: asid nukleik
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nukleinsyre m or f

Nynorsk: nukleinsyre f
Polish: kwas nukleinowy m
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
Thai: กรดนิวคลีอิก (gròt-niu-klii-ìk)
Ukrainian: нуклеї́нова кислота́ f (nuklejínova kyslotá)
Vietnamese: axit nucleic

See also

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