biosynthesis
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biosynthesis (countable and uncountable, plural biosyntheses)
- (biochemistry) The synthesis of organic compounds within a living organism, especially the synthesis of large compounds from small ones.
- 2015 April 23, Simon Moore et al., “Spatiotemporal modelling of hormonal crosstalk explains the level and patterning of hormones and gene expression in Arabidopsis thaliana wild-type and mutant roots”, in The New Phytologist[1], volume 207, :
- The rate-limiting step for cytokinin biosynthesis involves a group of isopentenyltransferase (IPT) enzymes.
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[edit]synthesis of organic compounds
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