Noun
the branch of biology that studies the structure and activity of macromolecules essential to life (and especially with their genetic role)
Source: WordNetI can see no practical application of molecular biology to human affairs... DNA is a tangled mass of linear molecules in which the informational content is quite inaccessible. Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Both of us had decided, quite independently of each other, that the central problem in molecular biology was the chemical structure of the gene. Francis Crick
What is truly revolutionary about molecular biology in the post-Watson-Crick era is that it has become digital. Richard Dawkins
Many in my family were ambivalent about it, but my mother encouraged me to put aside my fears. Vera (my wife) and I finally decided to leave Utah, where we were very happy, take a 40 per cent salary cut and move to the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
This remarkable feat merely reaffirms what most of us in molecular biology have long known to be the truth: the essence of life is complicated chemistry and nothing more. James D. Watson
Biology is far from understanding exactly how a single cell develops into a baby, but research suggests that human development can ultimately be explained in terms of biochemistry and molecular biology. Most scientists would make a similar statement about evolution. Kenneth R. Miller