• Question: What does DNA stand for?

    Asked by zayaan on 12 Nov 2021.
    • Photo: Thomas Nicol

      Thomas Nicol answered on 12 Nov 2021:

      Deoxyribonucleic acid

    • Photo: Mukta Deobagkar

      Mukta Deobagkar answered on 14 Nov 2021:

      As Thomas said, DNA is a deoxyribonucleic acid molecule. It is usually made up of two polynucleotide chains coiled around each other in a spiral or a ‘double helix’. Polynucleotide chains are made up of four bases: (adenine [A], thymine [T], guanine [G] or cytosine [C]). The various combinations of these A, T, G and C bases is the code that contains instructions for the growth, multiplication and function of most living organisms.

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