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deoxyribonucleic acid

How many syllables in deoxyribonucleic acid?

  10 syllables

Divide deoxyribonucleic acid into syllables:   de-ox-y-ri-bo-nu-cle-ic ac-id
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Synonyms for deoxyribonucleic acid


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