Constituent
Name
Deoxyribonucleic acid sodium salt (DNA)
Family
molecular solid
Class
mixed molecular solid
Compound type
organic molecular solid
Isotope mixture type
terrestrial abundance
  Formula Name Family Number min-max Mole fraction Mass fraction State Relevance Comments
$C$ Carbon element constituent element main
$H$ Hydrogen element constituent element main
$O$ Oxygen element constituent element main
$N$ Nitrogen element constituent element main
$P$ Phosphorus element constituent element main
$Na$ Sodium element constituent element main
Composition comments
polymer of nucleotides, each nucleotide is composed of a nucleobase (guanine, adenine, cytosine, and thymine), linked to a backbone made of sugars (deoxyribose) and phosphate groups
Chemical functions
  Function Number
$R-NH_2$
$R-NH-R$
Chemical bonds
  Bond Number
$\geq C-H$
$>N-H$
$>C=O$
$\geq C-C \leq$
$>C=C<$
$\geq C-N<$
$\eqslantgtr C-N<$
$>C=N-$
$=P-O^-$
$P=O$
Phase type
unknown
Texture
macromolecular
Color
white