The phrase "a sort of dna" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that resembles or has characteristics similar to DNA, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "The new software has a sort of DNA that allows it to adapt and evolve based on user interactions."
Alternatives: "a type of blueprint" or "a kind of framework".
There also is a sort of DNA wiring system that is almost inconceivably intricate.
It's a sort of DNA of people's taste preferences and a parallel to the social graph that they are building out on Facebook and elsewhere.
CRISPR has the capacity to dramatically reshape the world as we know it in food, medicine and materials science, acting as a sort of DNA scissors, allowing scientists to precisely cut pretty much any gene — like those that make brown spots on white button mushrooms or cause a particular hereditary cancer.
CRISPR has the capacity to dramatically reshape the world as we know it in food, medicine and materials science, acting as a sort of DNA scissors, allowing scientists to precisely cut pretty much any gene — like those that make brown spots on white button mushrooms or cause a particular hereditary cancer.
Both, the assortment of the satellite sequences and/or the relative amount of satellite DNAs can vary between closely related species representing a sort of "satellite DNA species-specific content".
Within this tree, musical beats – expressed as a sequence of binary numbers — form distinctly shaped "timelines". These memorable rhythmic patterns of short duration are a sort of musical DNA.
DUESs might also not be that advantageous, thus representing a sort of 'lucky DNA' probably driven to overrepresentation in genomic locations where they cause insignificant loss of fitness due to a possibly coincidental specificity of the protein that binds DNA (i.e., receptor) at the cell surface during competence.
DUESs themselves might be a sort of 'lucky DNA' driven to genomic overrepresentation, in the susceptible parts of the genome, not due to any other function but the possibly coincidental specificity of the receptor that binds DNA for uptake during natural competence for transformation.
They injected antisense DNA--a sort of mirror image of the stretch of DNA in the gene coding for the VEGF protein--into mice with the tumors.
Mitochondrial DNA, which is a sort of abridged version of DNA, is passed directly from mother to child, so it's something that can be looked at to trace matrilineal descent.
The controversy over Mukherjee's piece arose from his emphasis on histones--a sort of protein packing around the DNA--to the exclusion of RNA and "transcription factors," which are influential proteins that attach themselves to DNA.
