nucleic_acid (CURRENT_SVN) |
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| SO Accession: | SO:0000348 (SOWiki) |
| Definition: | An attribute describing a sequence consisting of nucleobases bound to repeating units. The forms found in nature are deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), where the repeating units are 2-deoxy-D-ribose rings connected to a phosphate backbone, and ribonucleic acid (RNA), where the repeating units are D-ribose rings connected to a phosphate backbone. |
| Synonyms: | nucleic acid |
| DB Xrefs: | CHEBI: 33696 |
| RSC: cb | |
| Parent: | polymer_attribute (SO:0000443) |
| Children: | LNA (SO:0001188) |
| GNA (SO:0001192) | |
| PNA (SO:0001184) | |
| TNA (SO:0001190) | |
| RNA (SO:0000356) | |
| morpholino_backbone (SO:0001183) | |
| DNA (SO:0000352) | |
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