biochemistry

English

Etymology

From bio- +‎ chemistry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌbaɪəʊˈkɛmɪstɹi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

biochemistry (countable and uncountable, plural biochemistries)

1. (uncountable) The chemistry of those compounds that occur in living organisms, and the processes that occur in their metabolism and catabolism
2. (countable) The chemical characteristics of a particular living organism

   The biochemistries of fungal and bacterial cells are quite distinct.

   • 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 146:

     They [viruses] use more varied biochemistry than cellular life, storing their genetic information as both single- and double-stranded DNA as well as RNA.

3. (countable) The biochemical activity associated with a particular chemical or condition

   Our study compared the biochemistries of epilepsy and Parkinson's.

   The biochemistry of NO differs from that of NO₂.

Derived terms

• autobiochemistry
• clinical biochemistry
• geobiochemistry
• glycobiochemistry
• metallobiochemistry
• neurobiochemistry
• photobiochemistry
• physiobiochemistry
• soil biochemistry
• xenobiochemistry

Related terms

• biochemical
• biochemist
• organic chemistry

Translations

the chemistry of those compounds that occur in living organisms, and the processes that occur in their metabolism and catabolism

• Afrikaans: biochjemie
• Albanian: biokimi (sq) f
• Arabic: كِيمِيَاء حَيَوِيَّة (ar) f (kīmiyāʔ ḥayawiyya)
• Aragonese: bioquimica f
• Armenian: կենսաքիմիա (hy) (kensakʻimia)
• Asturian: bioquímica f
• Azerbaijani: biokimya
• Bashkir: биохимия (bioximiya)
• Basque: biokimika
• Belarusian: біяхі́мія f (bijaxímija)
• Bengali: প্রাণরসায়ন (bn) (pranorśaẏon)
• Bulgarian: биохи́мия (bg) f (biohímija)
• Burmese: ဇီဝဓာတု (my) (jiwa.dhatu.)
• Carpathian Rusyn: біохемія f (bioxemija)
• Catalan: bioquímica f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 生物化學 / 生物化学 (sang¹ mat⁶ faa³ hok⁶)

  Hokkien: 生化學 / 生化学 (seng-hoà-ha̍k)

  Mandarin: 生物化學 / 生物化学 (zh) (shēngwù huàxué)

• Czech: biochemie (cs) f
• Danish: biokemi (da) c
• Dutch: biochemie (nl) f
• Esperanto: biokemio, bioĥemio
• Estonian: biokeemia
• Faroese: lívevnafrøði f
• Finnish: biokemia (fi)
• French: biochimie (fr) f
• Friulian: biochimiche f
• Galician: bioquímica f
• Georgian: ბიოქიმია (biokimia)
• German: Biochemie (de) f

  Alemannic German: Biochemy f

• Greek: βιοχημεία (el) f (viochimeía)
• Hebrew: בִּיוֹכִימְיָה (he) f (biokhymia)
• Hindi: जैवरसायनिकी f (jaivrasāynikī)
• Hungarian: biokémia (hu)
• Icelandic: lífefnafræði f
• Ido: biokemio (io)
• Ilocano: biokimika
• Indonesian: biokimia (id)
• Interlingua: biochimia
• Irish: bithcheimic f
• Italian: biochimica (it) f
• Jamaican Creole: bayokimischri
• Japanese: 生化学 (ja) (せいかがく, seikagaku)
• Javanese: biokimia
• Kabuverdianu:

  Badiu: biokimika f

• Kabyle: takrudert
• Karakalpak: bioximiya
• Khmer: ជីវរសាយន (chiivɔɔ rea’saayan)
• Korean: 생화학(生化學) (ko) (saenghwahak)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: biyokîmya (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: биохимия (ky) (biohimiya)
• Ladino: biokemika f
• Latin: biochemica f
• Latvian: bioķīmija f
• Lezgi: биохимия (bioꭓimiä)
• Limburgish: biosjemie (li) f
• Lithuanian: biochemija f
• Lombard: buchimica f
• Luxembourgish: Biochimie f
• Macedonian: биохемија f (biohemija)
• Malay: biokimia (ms)
• Malayalam: ജൈവരസതന്ത്രം (jaivarasatantraṁ)
• Manx: bea-kemmig f
• Mongolian: биохими (bioximi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: biokjemi m

  Nynorsk: biokjemi m

• Occitan: bioquimia f
• Persian: زیست‌شیمی (fa) (zist-šimi), بیوشیمی (fa) (biošimi)
• Polish: biochemia (pl) f
• Portuguese: bioquímica (pt) f
• Romanian: biochimie (ro) f
• Russian: биохи́мия (ru) f (bioxímija)
• Scottish Gaelic: bith-cheimigeachd f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: биохе́мија f, биоке́мија f

  Roman: biohémija f, biokémija (sh) f

• Slovak: biochémia f
• Slovene: biokemija (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: biochemija f

  Upper Sorbian: biochemija f

• Spanish: bioquímica (es) f
• Sundanese: biokimia
• Swahili: biokemia
• Swedish: biokemi (sv) c
• Tagalog: biyokimika
• Tajik: биокимиё (biokimiyo)
• Tamil: உயிர்வேதியியல் (ta) (uyirvētiyiyal)
• Tatar: биохимия (bioximiyä)
• Thai: ชีวเคมี (th) (cheew-kây-mee)
• Turkish: biyokimya (tr)
• Ukrainian: біологі́чна хі́мія f (biolohíčna xímija), біохі́мія (uk) f (bioxímija)
• Urdu: حیاتی کیمیاء (hyātī kemyā')
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: биокимё (biokimyo)

  Roman: biokimyo (uz)

• Veps: biohimii
• Vietnamese: hóa sinh (化生), sinh hoá học (vi), hoá sinh học
• Walloon: biyotchimeye f
• Welsh: biocemeg f
• West Frisian: biogemy
• Yakut: биохимия (bioqimiya)
• Yiddish: ביאָכעמיע f (byokhemye)

the chemical characteristics of a particular living organism

• Finnish: biokemia (fi)
• German: Biochemie (de) f
• Polish: biochemia (pl) f
• Romanian: biochimie (ro) f, biochimii f pl

See also

• physiology