biochemistry

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From bio- +‎ chemistry

Noun

biochemistry (countable and uncountable; plural biochemistries)

1. (uncountable) The chemistry of those compounds that occur in living organisms, and the processes that occur in their metabolism and catabolism

   I want to study biochemistry.

2. (countable) The chemical characteristics of a particular living organism

   The biochemistries of fungal and bacterial cells are quite distinct.

3. (countable) The biochemical activity associated with a particular chemical or condition

   Our study compared the biochemistries of epilepsy and Parkinson's.

   The biochemistry of NO differs from that of NO2.

Related terms

• biochemical
• biochemist
• organic chemistry

Translations

the chemistry of those compounds that occur in living organisms, and the processes that occur in their metabolism and catabolism

Afrikaans: biochemie Albanian: biokimi (sq) f. Arabic: كيمياء حيوية f. Asturian: bioquímica (ast) f. Azeri: biokimya (az) Basque: biokimika (eu) Bulgarian: биохимия (bg) (biohimija) f. Catalan: bioquímica f. Chinese: Cantonese: trad. 生物化學, simpl. 生物化学 (Jyutping: sang1 mat6 faa3 hok6) Mandarin: trad. 生物化學, simpl. 生物化学 (pinyin: shēngwùhuàxué) Croatian: biokemija (hr) f. Czech: biochemie (cs) f. Danish: biokemi (da) Dutch: biochemie (nl) f. Esperanto: biokemio (eo) Estonian: biokeemia (et) Finnish: biokemia (fi) French: biochimie (fr) f. Friulian: biochimiche Galician: bioquímica (gl) f. German: Biochemie (de) f. Greek: βιοχημεία (el) f. Ancient Romanization: biochimeia Modern Romanization: viochimeia, viochimia Hebrew: ביוכימיה (biokhymia) f. Hindi: जैवरसायनिकी (hi) Hungarian: biokémia (hu) Icelandic: lífefnafræði Ido: biokemio Indonesian: biokimia (id) Italian: biochimica (it) f. Japanese: 生化学 (seikagaku) Kabuverdianu: Badiu: biokimika f.

Khmer: ជីវរសាយន (km) (chiivɔɔ rea’saayan) Korean: 생화학 (saeng-hwahak) Latin: biochemica f. Latvian: bioķīmija Lithuanian: biochemija Luxembourgish: biochimie Macedonian: биохемија (biohemija) f. Malay: biokimia (ms) Mongolian: биохими (biohimi) Novial: biokemie Occitan: bioquimia (oc) f. Persian: زیست‌شیمی (fa), بیوشیمی (fa) Polish: biochemia (pl) f. Portuguese: bioquímica (pt) f. Romanian: biochimie (ro) f. Russian: биохимия (ru) (bioxímija) f. Serbian: Cyrillic: биохемија f. Roman: biohemija f. Slovak: biochémia f. Slovene: biokemija (sl) f. Spanish: bioquímica (es) f. Sundanese: biokimia Swedish: biokemi (sv) Tagalog: biyokimika Thai: ชีวเคมี (cheew-kây-mee) Turkish: biyokimya (tr) Ukrainian: біологічна хімія (biologična himija), біохімія (uk) Urdu: حیاتی کیمیاء (ur) Vietnamese: hóa sinh West Frisian: biogemy Yiddish: ביאכעמיע (yi)

the chemical characteristics of a particular living organism

Finnish: biokemia (fi)