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biochemical

of or relating to biochemistry; involving chemical processes in living organisms

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Six example sentences with biochemical, each labelled with its topic.

  • Soreness two days after lifting comes from a biochemical cascade inside the muscle, not from lactic acid pooling.

    Fitness

  • The drug interrupts one biochemical step in the liver, and the whole chain downstream of it simply stops.

    Medicine

  • Mangrove roots run a biochemical trick that pushes salt back out through the leaves as fine white crystals.

    Environment

  • Bread rising is a biochemical process, with enzymes in the flour turning starch into sugar and yeast turning that sugar into gas.

    Cooking

  • Mood has a biochemical side, which is why sleep, food and exercise change how a bad week feels.

    Psychology

  • The startup sells a biochemical test that tells farmers within an hour which nutrient their soil is missing.

    Startups

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