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D Minor 7, written Dm7, is built from D, F, A and C: the root, minor 3rd, 5th and minor 7th.
Its 3rd and 7th, F and C, are its guide tones: they say what kind of chord it is, so voicings are built around them and the root is often left to the bass.
In the progressions here, Dm7 is the ii7 of the Major ii-V Progression in C, the iv7 of the Backdoor ii-V-I Progression in A, the vi7 of the Deceptive Cadence in F, the iii7 of the Major iii-VI-ii-V Progression in Bb, the i7 of the Minor i-vi-ii-V Progression in D and the v7 of the Whole-Step ii-V Chain in G.