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DNA is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions specifying the biological development of all cellular life.

In politics

• Democratic National Assembly, a political party in Trinidad and Tobago
• Det norske Arbeiderparti or Norwegian Labour Party

• DNA computing, which uses deoxyribonucleic acid and molecular biology instead of a traditional silicon-based computer technologies
• Bittorrent DNA, download accelerator
• Windows DNA, a defunct predecessor of the Microsoft .NET Framework
• Digital Network Architecture (DNA), a peer-to-peer network architecture by Digital Equipement Corporation implemented into the DECnet protocols suite

In music

• D.N.A. (album), the fourth studio album by American RnB singer Mario
• DNA (dance music band)
• DNA (band), a New York band
• "D.N.A.", a song by A Flock of Seagulls on their album A Flock of Seagulls (album)

In publications

• Daily News & Analysis, an Indian broadsheet newspaper based in Mumbai, Ahmedabad, and Bengaluru
• DNA an Adelaide, Australian punk/post punk fanzine published in the 80s/ early 90s
• DNA Magazine, an Australian magazine for gay men
• Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace, commonly referred to as "Les DNA", French newspaper edited in Strasbourg

Other uses

• "DNA" (Red Dwarf episode)
• DNA, a 15-episode anime series based on the manga by Masakazu Katsura
• 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
• Genentech's New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol
• Defense Nuclear Agency, a United States Department of Defense combat support agency
• Douglas Noel Adams, a British writer, sometimes times referred to by his initials DNA
• DnA, a pen name used jointly by writers Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning when the two collaborate on a story
• DNA - in healthcare, an abbreviation for "Did Not Attend", often used by clinicians to indicate patients who fail to attend outpatient surgery appointments
• Dynamic network analysis, an emergent scientific field that brings together traditional social network analysis (SNA), link analysis (LA) and multi-agent systems (MAS)