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  • adjective of or pertaining to biosynthesis.

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  • adjective biochemistry of or pertaining to biosynthesis

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  • adjective of or relating to biosynthesis

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Examples

  • It was his heavier leg, the biosynthetic prosthesis that he had been stuck with since the Battle of AR-558 during the Dominion War.

    Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

  • It was his heavier leg, the biosynthetic prosthesis that he had been stuck with since the Battle of AR-558 during the Dominion War.

    Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

  • Because all amino acids except glycine are chiral, biosynthetic pathways must generate the correct isomer with high fidelity.

    Are Stereochemical Explanations Causally Sufficient? 2010

  • Measurement of coproporphyrin and ALA-D provide clinical investigators with an indication of lead effects on heme biosynthetic pathways and reversal of these effects during chelation therapy.

    Succimer 2010

  • De Giulio, An extension of the coevolution theory of the origin of the genetic code 2008: The coevolution theory of the origin of the genetic code suggests that the genetic code is an imprint of the biosynthetic relationships between amino acids.

    Chunkdz Comes Out Smokin 2008

  • You clearly misinterpreted the results as they depend on the biosynthetic restrictions assumed in the test.

    Chunkdz Comes Out Smokin 2008

  • Its properties are unique and unlike hydrocarbon fuels (natural gas or oil), there are no biosynthetic ways to make an alternative to helium.

    Peak Helium « Isegoria 2008

  • A more elaborated biosynthetic theory is very interesting from design perspective, as implementing a basic design economy, and indeed seems necessitated by the adaptive demand for increasing precision, increasing reliability, increasing complexity — of adapting and evolving in increasingly more effective ways.

    Chunkdz Comes Out Smokin 2008

  • The objective of this research is to improve and advance direct biosynthetic technologies that demonstrate the potential to supply transportation fuels for California in order to: ...

    NASA Watch: News: June 2010 Archives 2010

  • The objective of this research is to improve and advance direct biosynthetic technologies that demonstrate the potential to supply transportation fuels for California in order to: ...

    NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: June 2010 Archives 2010

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