1. biochemical - Noun
2. biochemical - Adjective
of or relating to biochemistry; involving chemical processes in living organisms
Source: WordNetIt is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature. Francis Crick
It has yet to be shown by direct biochemical methods, as opposed to the indirect genetic evidence mentioned earlier, that the code is indeed a triplet code. Francis Crick
If we do not wonder about origins and ends at least once during life's journey, we are but biochemical blobs that devour matter and energy for a time-span, sport and make noise, and then go into eternal extinction. Varadaraja V. Raman
But sequence comparisons simply can't account for the development of complex biochemical systems any more than Darwin's comparison of simple and complex eyes told him how vision worked. Michael Behe
We look at the human body as a biochemical machine controlled by genes and therefore we see a mechanical aspect to life and then try to understand the nature of mechanics by looking at how the physical parts interact with each other, so that's biochemistry. Bruce H. Lipton
Too bad, Matson thought archly, that George Hoffman didn't discover more planets in more star systems habitable by us, the frail needs of living, sentient, mentating biochemical upright bipeds which we humans are. Philip K. Dick