NOUN
- the branch of biology that studies the structure and activity of macromolecules essential to life (and especially with their genetic role)
How To Use molecular biology In A Sentence
- The university's laboratory of clinical immunology and molecular biology is named after him.
- In 1947 he switched fields from physics to molecular biology, because of his horror at what atomic weapons had done. Times, Sunday Times
- This was an exciting period in the molecular biology of adenovirus with the discoveries (a) that only one specific fragment of the genome, the E1 region, was responsible for oncogenic transformation; (b) that restriction endonuclease length polymorphism could be utilized to generate genetic maps; (c) the mapping of specific genes on the viral genome; and (d) generation of a viral map of sequences expressed as stable RNAs. Phillip A. Sharp - Autobiography
- The associate professor in biochemistry, biophysics, and molecular biology takes pride in presenting classes with new information that had not been published the previous year.
- This attention actually relates to the developmental molecular biology of the pituitary, rather than to osteology.
- In 1958, Francis Crick used and characterized the concept of information in the context of stating what he called the central dogma of molecular biology. Molecular Biology
- Molecular biology associates our individuality with the uniqueness of the genes.
- It is not too hard to imagine a world in which the study of photosynthesis might have been the foundation on which molecular biology was based. Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
- It meant rewriting the dogma of molecular biology.
- There he got his first taste of applying the tools of molecular biology to systematics and phylogenetic research.
