deoxygenate /dē-oksˈij-ən-āt/ transitive verb

To remove oxygen from (also deoxˈygenize or deoxˈygenise)

deoxyribonuclease /dē-oks-i-rī-bō-nūˈklē-āz/ noun see DNase under DNA

deoxyribonucleic acid /-nū-klāˈik/ noun

A long simple molecule consisting of a sugar-phosphate backbone and four different nitrogenous bases, which in its double-stranded form comprises the genetic material of most organisms and organelles, the strands forming a double-helix and running in opposite directions with the bases projecting towards each other like the rungs of a ladder so that thymidine always pairs with adenine and cytosine with guanine (abbrev DNA)