DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule that carries genetic information.

DNA or dna may also refer to:

Companies

  • DNA Films, a British film studio
  • DNA Oyj, a Finnish telecommunications company
  • DNA Productions, an American animation studio
  • DNA Publications, an American publishing company
  • DNA Studio, an advertising agency
  • Ginkgo Bioworks, a biotech company (NYSE stock symbol:DNA)
  • Dan Air (Romania), a Romanian airline (ICAO code:DNA)
  • DNA Music, a sub-label of the Philippine label Star Music

Computing

  • DIGITAL Network Architecture, DECnet's peer-to-peer networking architecture
  • BitTorrent DNA, a download accelerator
  • Windows DNA, a defunct predecessor of the Microsoft Framework
  • Direct Note Access, technology for music editing from Celemony Software

Entertainment

  • Daily News and Analysis, an Indian broadsheet newspaper between 2005 and 2019
  • DNA (1997 film), an American science fiction action film
  • DNA (2020 film), a French drama film
  • DNA (British TV series), a British television crime drama, aired in 2004 and 2006
  • DNA (Danish TV series), a Danish television crime drama starring Anders W. Berthelsen, aired in 2019 and 2023
  • "DNA" (Red Dwarf), a 1991 episode of Red Dwarf
  • DNA (2024 film), a Malayalam-language crime thriller film
  • DNA (2025 film), a Tamil-language crime action drama film
  • Duet Night Abyss, a 2025 Chinese video game

Literature

  • DNA Magazine an Australian monthly magazine
  • Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace or Les DNA, a daily French newspaper
  • DNA, a 2007 play by Dennis Kelly
  • DnA, the joint pen name of Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning<!-- wikilink removed, DnA not mentioned in Andy Lanning's article -->, British comic book writing duo

Music

Bands

  • DNA (American band), a No Wave band
  • DNA (duo), an electronic dance music duo
  • DNA, a rock band formed in 1983 by Rick Derringer and Carmine Appice
  • DNA, a Kazakh boy group under Juz Entertainment

Albums

  • DNA (Backstreet Boys album) (2019)
  • DNA (Wanessa Camargo album) (2011)
  • DNA (Last Live at CBGB's) 1993 album by DNA
  • D.N.A. (John Foxx album) (2010)
  • DNA (Koda Kumi album) (2018)
  • DNA (Little Mix album) (2012)
  • D.N.A. (Mario album) (2009)
  • DNA (Matthew Shipp and William Parker album) (1999)
  • DNA (Trapt album) (2016)
  • DNA (Ian Yates album) (2014)
  • DNA (Ghali album) (2020)
  • DNA, a 2019 album by Jeanette Biedermann

Songs

  • "DNA" (BTS song) (2017)
  • "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 Craig David from 22 (2022)
  • "DNA", a song by Danny Brown from XXX
  • "DNA", a song by K.Flay from Solutions (2019)
  • "DNA", a song by the Kills from Blood Pressures
  • "DNA", a song written by Howard Benson, Lenard Skolnik, Lia Marie Johnson, and Sidnie Tipton and recorded by Lia Marie Johnson (2016)
  • "DNA", a song by Rye Rye from Go! Pop! Bang!
  • "DNA", a song by Wale from Shine
  • "DNA", a song by Earl Sweatshirt eaturing Na-Kel from I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside
  • "", a song from the video game Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage!

Politics and government

  • Democratic National Assembly, a political party in Trinidad and Tobago
  • or Norwegian Labour Party
  • National Anticorruption Directorate or , a Romanian anti-corruption agency
  • The National Assembly or De Nationale Assemblée, the parliament of Suriname
  • Democratic – Neutral – Authentic, a political party in Austria

Other uses

  • Corporate DNA, factors underlying and affecting organizational culture
  • Z-DNA, one of the possible double helical structures of DNA
  • DNA computing, computing using molecular biology hardware
  • DNA profiling, a technique used to identify individuals via DNA characteristics
  • DNa inscription, an ancient inscription at the tomb of Darius the Great
  • DNA Lounge, a nightclub in San Francisco, California, United States
  • Dynamic network analysis, a scientific field in sociology and statistics
  • Dynamic New Athletics, a team competition format in athletics
  • DNA, an index herbariorum code in the FloraNT database
  • DeNA, a mobile provider in Japan
  • D.N.A.: Dark Native Apostle, a 2001 PS2 action game from Tamsoft
  • DNA², a 1993 manga by Masakazu Katsura, subsequently adapted into an anime
  • D.N.Angel, a 2003 manga/anime franchise by Yukiru Sugisaki
  • DNAR or "do not attempt resuscitation", legal order to withhold cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) or cardiac life support
  • Did Not Attend, a motorsport term
  • Upper Grand Valley Dani language, an ISO 639-3 code

See also

  • RNA (disambiguation)