Relating to chemical processes that happen inside living organisms, like how your body digests food or creates energy.
Combining 'bio-' (from Greek 'bios' meaning life) and 'chemical.' This is a relatively modern term, emerging in the late 1800s as science separated into specialized fields.
Your body performs the same chemical reactions that chemists have to heat and pressure in laboratories—life figured out how to do chemistry efficiently at body temperature, which is why we're essentially walking miracle machines.
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