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biochemistry

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Etymology

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Frombio- +‎chemistry.

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biochemistry (countable anduncountable,pluralbiochemistries)

  1. (uncountable) Thechemistry of thosecompounds thatoccur inlivingorganisms, and theprocesses that occur in theirmetabolism andcatabolism; the study of such chemistry.
    Alternative form:biochem(informal clipping)
    My aunt has a degree inbiochemistry.
  2. (countable) The chemicalcharacteristics of aparticular living organism.
    Thebiochemistries of fungal and bacterial cells are quite distinct.
    • 2012, Caspar Henderson,The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page146:
      They [viruses] use more variedbiochemistry than cellular life, storing their genetic information as both single- and double-stranded DNA as well as RNA.
  3. (countable) The biochemical activity associated with a particular chemical or condition.
    Our study compared thebiochemistries of epilepsy and Parkinson's.
    Thebiochemistry of NO differs from that of NO2.

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the chemistry of those compounds that occur in living organisms, and the processes that occur in their metabolism and catabolism
the chemical characteristics of a particular living organism

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