🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

Biochemie

Pronunciation / Transliteration: Biochemie

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Biochemistry/ˌbaɪ.oʊˈkɛm.ɪ.stri/
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Biochemie ist ein faszinierendes Forschungsgebiet."

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As noun
  1. 1

    The branch of science concerned with the chemical and physicochemical processes and substances that occur within living organisms.

    "She is majoring in biochemistry to understand how enzymes function."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'biochemistry' is derived from the combination of 'bio-', meaning life, from the Greek 'bios', and 'chemistry', from the Greek 'khemia', which refers to the study of substances and their interactions. The term began to be used in the early 20th century as the field of study that combines biology and chemistry to understand living organisms at a molecular level.

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