bioenergetics
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- noun The study of the flow and transformation of energy in and between living organisms and between living organisms and their environment.
Examples
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The discoveries for which Peter Mitchell has been awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry relate to a field of biochemistry often referred to in recent years as bioenergetics, which is the study of those chemical processes responsible for supplying energy to living cells.
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Lipmann extended our understanding of bioenergetics by formulating the concept of the ATP metabolic wheel and introducing his famous "wiggle" (~P) to represent the bonds of high energy phosphate derivatives.
Otto Meyerhof and the Physiology Institute: the Birth of Modern Biochemistry
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"There has been a bioenergetics study that says that bighead and silver carp could not make it on what is available in the open waters of Lake Michigan," says Chapman, biologist for the U.S.
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Cellular bioenergetics - the processes by which cells produce and consume energy - is fundamental to the growth, development, function and cancer; aging; and metabolic, cardiovascular, and neurodegenerative diseases.
Note
The word 'bioenergetics' comes ultimately from Greek roots meaning 'life' and 'active'.
