DNA (disambiguation)

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In biochemistry, DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is a molecule encoding the genetic instructions for life.

DNA may also refer to:

Arts, media and entertainment

• Artists
  • DNA (American band), a No Wave band
  • DNA (duo), electronic dance music duo
  • DNA, a rock band formed in 1983 by Rick Derringer and Carmine Appice
• Albums
  • D.N.A. (John Foxx album), 2010
  • DNA (Little Mix album), 2012
  • D.N.A. (Mario album), 2009
  • DNA (Matthew Shipp album), 1999
  • DNA (Trapt album), 2016
  • DNA (Wanessa album), 2011
• Songs
  • "DNA" (Empire of the Sun song), 2013
  • "D.N.A" (A Flock of Seagulls song), 1982
  • "DNA" (Kendrick Lamar song), 2017
  • "DNA" (Little Mix song), 2012
  • "DNA", a song by Danny Brown from his album XXX
  • "DNA", a song by The Kills on their album Blood Pressures
  • "DNA", a song by Rye Rye from her album Go! Pop! Bang!
  • "DNA", a song by Wale from his album Shine

Periodicals

• Daily News and Analysis, an Indian broadsheet newspaper
• DNA Magazine for Australian gay men
• Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace (Les DNA), French newspaper

Other uses

• "DNA" (Red Dwarf), a 1991 British sci-fi comedy TV episode
• DNA (film), a 1997 American science fiction action film
• DnA, Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning, the British comic book writing duo's joint pen name
• D.N.Angel, a 2003 manga/anime franchise by Yukiru Sugisaki
• DNA², a 1993 manga by Masakazu Katsura, subsequently adapted into an anime
• Douglas Noel Adams, English writer and dramatist

Computing

• BitTorrent DNA, a download accelerator
• Direct Note Access, a technology for manipulation of individual notes within chords and polyphonic recordings
• DNA computing, a field of non-silicon computing technologies based on molecular biology
• DIGITAL Network Architecture, DECnet's peer-to-peer networking architecture
• Windows DNA, a defunct predecessor of the Microsoft .NET Framework

Organisations

Companies

• DNA Model Management, a modeling agency based in New York City
• DNA Productions, an American animation studio
• DNA Studio, an advertising agency
• DNA Oy, a Finnish telecommunications company
• DNA Films, British film studio
• DNA Publications, an American publishing company

Politics and government

• Democratic National Assembly, a political party in Trinidad and Tobago
• Det norske Arbeiderparti or the Norwegian Labour Party
• Defense Nuclear Agency, a U.S. Department of Defense combat support agency
• DNA-Peoples Legal Services, Inc. (Dinébe’iiná Náhiiłna be Agha’diit’ahii), the Legal Services Corporation for the South-western United States
• Direcția Națională Anticorupție, National Anticorruption Directorate - Romanian agency tasked with preventing, investigating and prosecuting high- and medium-level corruption

Other organisations

• Deutscher Normenausschuß, German Standardisation Committee, predecessor of Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN)

Other uses

• DNA (term), a term that describes the factors underlying and affecting organizational culture
• DNA Lounge, a nightclub in San Francisco, California, U.S.
• Dynamic network analysis, an emergent scientific field in sociology and statistics

See also

• DNA profiling
• DeNA