biochemistry

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun the organic chemistry of compounds and processes occurring in organisms; the effort to understand biology within the context of chemistry

From bio- + chemistry.

One of the members of the club, an explorer, had told a wild yarn about a tribe of Brazilian Indians, headed by Sir Basil Addington, an English scientist, who was conducting secret experiments in biochemistry in his jungle laboratory. — Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930, Various

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