英语词汇dna的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	dna
词源	DNA. The DNA we have been hearing so much about as evi- dence of guilt or innocence in murder trials is (very roughly) a nucleic acid that carries the genetic information in the cell. Its scientific name is the longest word in the English language. Ac- cording to the Guinness Book of World Records the longest of all words is “the systematic name for deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), which contains 16,569 nucleotide residues and is thus 207,000 letters long.”
随便看	the longest night the long telegram the lost dauphin the lost generation the mammon of unrighteousness the man of a thousand faces the man who broke the bank at monte carlo the man who invented a language the marshmallows of the sea the massachusetts game the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation the mckinley grip the mind-s eye the miracle of coogan-s bluff the miseries the missae a c missalis anatomia the moon is made of green cheese the moon-s reflection the most unkindest cut of all the mothers the mousetrap the night of the long kiss the nine worthies the norse gods the oddfather

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