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biomolecule en · NOUN

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der. Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os) Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der. English bio- Latin mōlēs Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Proto-Italic *-kelos Latin -cula New Latin mōlēculalbor. French moléculebor. English molecule English biomolecule From bio- + molecule.

Meanings

1. Molecules, such as amino acids, sugars, nucleic acids, proteins, polysaccharides, DNA, and RNA, that occur naturally in living organisms; any such molecule, even if created outside a living thing (as for example in a test tube or bioreactor).
   • Zinc oxide is biosafe and, therefore, there are no toxic effects for biomedical applications that immobilize and modify biomolecules (Kumar and Shen, 2008). 2011, Sam Zhang, Biological and Biomedical Coatings Handbook: Applications, page 343:
   • In the close vicinity of a chiral nanostructure, the circular dichroism of a biomolecule could be greatly enhanced, due to the interaction with the local superchiral fields. 2016, S. Hamed Shams Mousavi, Sajanlal R. Panikkanvalappil, Mostafa A. El-Sayed, Ali A. Eftekhar, Ali Adibi, “Large Enhancement of Circular Dichroism Using an Embossed Chiral Metamaterial”, in arXiv:

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Relateds

biotechnology · biosignature · biomolecular · biomatter · biometal · biomaterial · biomarker · biochemical · bioscience · bioindicator

Translations (19)

ko 생체분자 (molecules) · gl biomolécula (molecules) · tr biyomolekül (molecules) · pt biomolécula (molecules) · vi phân tử sinh học (molecules) · fi biomolekyyli (molecules) · ca biomolècula (molecules) · it biomolecola (molecules) · ro biomoleculă (molecules) · nl biomolecuul (molecules) · el βιομόριο (molecules) · fr biomolécule (molecules) · hi जैवाणु (molecules) · uk біомолекула (molecules) · de Biomolekül (molecules) · ast biomolécula (molecules) · da biomolekyle (molecules) · an biomolecula (molecules) · es biomolécula (molecules)