/diːɛˈneɪeɪz/.DNasen.
/diːɛˈneɪz//diːɛˈneɪeɪz/. Biochemistry.
= deoxyribonucleic acid n. Cf. RNase n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [noun] > nucleic acid > DNA
thymo-nucleic acid1904
deoxyribonucleic acid1931
DNA1944
DNase1949
C1958
minicircle1967
Z-DNA1979
1949 Zamenhoff & Chargaff in Jrnl. Biol. Chem. 180 727 For the sake of brevity desoxypentose nucleic acid will be referred to as DNA, desoxypentose nuclease as DNase.
1971 J. Z. Young Introd. Study Man xxii. 301 DNAase and DNA polymerase certainly exist in tissues that have a low mitotic activity.
1982 Sci. Amer. July 90/2 The breaking of the sugar-phosphate bond by DNase is favored energetically.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
<
n.1949- postcognitive
- postcoital
- postcoitally
- postcoition
- postcold war
- postcoleridgean
- postcollege
- postcolleges
- postcollegiate
- postcolonial
- postcolonialism
- postcolonialist
- postcoloniality
- postcolumbian
- postcolumellar
- postcommon
- postcommunicant
- postcommunion
- postcommunism
- postcommunist
- postconciliar
- postconcussion
- postconcussion syndrome
- postconcussional
- postconcussional syndrome