• Question: What does DNA stand for?

    Asked by Sophie to Alex, Ali, Kerry, Philip, Theo on 17 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Alison Thomson

      Alison Thomson answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      DeoxyriboNucleic Acid

      Good question!

    • Photo: Philip Ratcliffe

      Philip Ratcliffe answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid but it’s often written Deoxyribonucleic acid

      Oh, by the way, I cheated on that one and looked it up in Wikipedia, just to be sure of the spelling – I suppose you could have done too, couldn’t you? ;^)

Comments