Biochemistry

Biochemistry

The scientific study of the chemistry of living matter.

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nitrogen

Biology; Biochemistry

Nitrogen is the element which is most common limiting nutrient in ocean.

manometry

Biotechnology; Biochemistry

Measurement of pressures within organs of body. This technique is used to record changes within fluid-filled chambers.

hypervariable region

Biology; Biochemistry

A localized sequence of a variable region of an immunoglobulin that shows a particularly large variation in amino acid sequence compared with all other immunoglobulins; presumably the part of the ...

sequence-tagged site (STS)

Biology; Biochemistry

A landmark in the base sequence of a genome used for placing partial sequences in correct relation to each other; especially as a strategy for co-ordination of the efforts of many laboratories in ...

A complex composed of glycosaminoglycans that radiate from a protein core in a bottlebrush-like structure. There are two major types of membrane proteoglycans: glypicans, which are anchored to the ...

mucopolysaccharide

Biology; Biochemistry

Hunter and Downs plot

Biology; Biochemistry

A graphical method for determination of dissociation constants of enzyme inhibitors. Where I is total inhibitor concentration and α is the ratio of inhibited to non-inhibited rates, a plot of ...