dna

Other forms of dna

plural

dnas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dna

What does dna mean?

dna means "(biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transmission of genetic information".

How many syllables are in dna?

dna has 3 syllables, though it cannot be divided in writing — the spelling has fewer vowels than the word has beats. In IPA it is /ˈdiˌɛˈneɪ/.

What is another word for dna?

Close synonyms include deoxyribonucleic acid, desoxyribonucleic acid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dna a common word?

dna is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with dna?

10 words rhyme with dna. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.