Definition of Biochemistry

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Definition of Biochemistry
	Biochemistry The chemistry of living organisms; the chemistry of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life. Related Definitions: And, Characteristic, Chemistry, Life, Living, Of, The, To

Biochemistry Quotations

It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature.
Francis Crick

By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.
Joshua Lederberg

Her death contributed to my later interest in studying biochemistry, an interest that has not been fulfilled in the sense that my accomplishments remain more at the basic than the applied level.
Paul D. Boyer

The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had a good biochemistry department.
Paul D. Boyer

In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department.
Paul D. Boyer

After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result.
Frederick Sanger

By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.
Paul Berg

An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.
Paul D. Boyer

Biochemistry Translations

biochemistry in French is biochimie
biochemistry in German is Biochemie

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