Biochemistry

Biochemistry

The scientific study of the chemistry of living matter.

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Biotechnology; Biochemistry

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An organism's ability to illuminate with its own body chemistry. For example, fireflies or glowing sea plankton glow in the dark. Unlike conventional light techniques, bioluminescence creates light ...

triple helix

Biology; Biochemistry

The tertiary structure of collagen that twists three polypeptide chains around themselves; also a triple-stranded DNA structure that involves Hoogstein base pairing between B-DNA and a third DNA ...

coenocytic

Biology; Biochemistry

Situation in which an organization composed of filamentous cells with large central vacuoles, and whose nuclei are not divided into separate apartments. The result is a long tube containing many ...

Antibody

Biology; Biochemistry

Any of numerous Y -shaped protein molecules produced by B cells as a primary immune defense, each molecule and its clones having a unique binding site that can combine with the complementary site of ...

ossification

Biology; Biochemistry

The process of bone formation. Specialized cells called osteoblasts secrete the minerals combine with a network of collagen fibers, forming a hard bone matrix.