spherical nucleic acid
nounEtymology From spherical + nucleic acid.
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A spheroidal compound composed of a central spherical scaffold upon which nucleic acid strands are attached, like hair on a ball.
- Synonyms
- SNA
- Derived terms
- SNA
- Related terms
- deoxyribonucleic acid, glycol nucleic acid, nucleic acid, peptide nucleic acid, ribonucleic acid, threonucleic acid, xeno-nucleic acid
- Hypernyms
- nucleic acid