. "Any cellular metabolic process involving deoxyribonucleic acid. This is one of the two main types of nucleic acid, consisting of a long, unbranched macromolecule formed from one, or more commonly, two, strands of linked deoxyribonucleotides." . . . "DNA metabolism" . "DNA metabolic process" . "cellular DNA metabolism" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .