• Question: What does DNA stand for?

    Asked by kerrywood1309 to Anouk on 21 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Anouk Gouvras

      Anouk Gouvras answered on 21 Jun 2012:

      DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid, it is one of the two types of nucleic acid found in our cells and it carries our genetic code. The name describes the molecule – a nucleic acid (made up of a string of nucleotides) and a backbone made up of phosphate and deoxyribose (a sugar molecule).

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