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threose nucleic acid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
thre-ose nu-cle-ic acid
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
4
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An analog of RNA in which the sugar component is threose—considered to be a primordial precursor to RNA

Inflected Forms

threose nucleic acids (plural)

Derived Forms

TNA

Phrases

nucleic acid ribonucleic acid deoxyribonucleic acid peptide nucleic acid glycol nucleic acid

Frequently Paired Words

nucleic acid ribonucleic acid deoxyribonucleic acid peptide nucleic acid glycol nucleic acid

Synonyms

threonucleic acid

Questions

What does threose nucleic acid mean?
An analog of RNA in which the sugar component is threose—considered to be a primordial precursor to RNA

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