molecular biology

English

Alternative forms

• molbio (usually), mbio (uncommonly)

Noun

molecular biology (uncountable)

2. (biology, biochemistry) The branch of biology that studies the macromolecules of life, such as proteins, lipoproteins and nucleic acids.

   Hypernyms: biology, bioscience

   Holonyms: biology, bioscience

3. (genetics) The branch of biology that studies the manipulation of genetic sequence of DNA.
4. (genetics) The technology of gene manipulation.

Related terms

• biotech, biotechnology
• microbiologist
• microbiology
• molecular biologist

Translations

branch of biology

• Azerbaijani: molekulyar biologiya
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 分子生物學 / 分子生物学 (zh) (fēnzǐ shēngwùxué)

• Danish: molekylærbiologi c
• Dutch: moleculaire biologie f
• Estonian: molekulaarbioloogia
• Finnish: molekyylibiologia (fi)
• French: biologie moléculaire (fr) f
• Georgian: მოლეკულური ბიოლოგია (moleḳuluri biologia)
• German: Molekularbiologie (de) f
• Greek: μοριακή βιολογία (el) f (moriakí viología)
• Hindi: अणुजैविकी f (aṇujaivikī)
• Hungarian: molekuláris biológia (hu)
• Indonesian: biologi molekuler
• Japanese: 分子生物学 (ja) (bunshi seibutsugaku)
• Khmer: ជីវាណូវិទ្យា (chiivaa’noo vityie)
• Malay: biologi molekul
• Polish: biologia molekularna (pl) f
• Portuguese: biologia molecular (pt) f
• Romanian: biologie moleculară
• Russian: молекуля́рная биоло́гия (ru) f (molekuljárnaja biológija)
• Swedish: molekylärbiologi (sv) c
• Tagalog: mulatling haynayan
• Turkish: moleküler biyoloji (tr)
• Ukrainian: молекуля́рна біоло́гія f (molekuljárna biolóhija)