Relating to or produced through the chemical processes by which living organisms build complex molecules from simpler substances.
From 'bio-' (life) + 'synthetic' (made or produced artificially, from 'synthesis'). This adjective describes substances or processes created through biological chemistry.
Aspirin can be extracted from willow bark (a natural biosynthetic compound) or manufactured in a lab (synthetic)—they're the same molecule, but biosynthetic emphasizes that nature figured out this chemistry first!
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