nucleic acid

English

Etymology

nucleic + acid

Pronunciation

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

Noun

nucleic acid (countable and uncountable, plural nucleic acids)

(biochemistry, genetics) Any acidic, chainlike biological macromolecule consisting of multiply 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

ribonucleic acid (RNA)
threose nucleic acid (TNA)

unlocked nucleic acid (UNA)
locked nucleic acid (LNA)
bridged nucleic acid (BNA)

nucleic acid analogue (XNA)

Translations

acidic chainlike biological macromolecule

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

Hakka: 核酸 (fu̍t-sôn)

Mandarin: 核酸 (zh) (hésuān)

Min Nan: 核酸 (hu̍t-sng, he̍k-sng)
Czech: nukleová kyselina f
Dutch: nucleïnezuur (nl) n, kernzuur n
Esperanto: nuklea acido
Faroese: kjarnasýra f
Finnish: nukleiinihappo (fi), tumahappo
French: acide nucléique (fr)
German: Nukleinsäure (de) f

Greek: νουκλεϊκό οξύ n (noukleïkó oxý)
Hungarian: nukleinsav (hu)
Icelandic: kjarnasýra f
Italian: acido nucleico (it) m
Japanese: 核酸 (ja) (かくさん, kakusan)
Polish: kwasy nukleinowe
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

See also

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