Toxicology vs Biochemistry - What's the difference?
toxicology | biochemistry |
(sciences, pharmacology) The branch of pharmacology that deals with the nature, effect, detection and treatment of poisons and poisoning.
(uncountable) The chemistry of those compounds that occur in living organisms, and the processes that occur in their metabolism and catabolism
(countable) The chemical characteristics of a particular living organism
(countable) The biochemical activity associated with a particular chemical or condition
As nouns the difference between toxicology and biochemistry
is that toxicology is the branch of pharmacology that deals with the nature, effect, detection and treatment of poisons and poisoning while biochemistry is the chemistry of those compounds that occur in living organisms, and the processes that occur in their metabolism and catabolism.toxicology
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(wikipedia toxicology)Noun
(-)biochemistry
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(wikipedia biochemistry)Noun
- I want to study biochemistry .
- The biochemistries of fungal and bacterial cells are quite distinct.
- Our study compared the biochemistries of epilepsy and Parkinson's.
- The biochemistry of NO differs from that of NO2.
