Biosynthesis

Definition: Biosynthesis

Biosynthesis

Noun

1. Production of a chemical compound by a living organism.

Specialty Definitions: Biosynthesis

Domain	Definitions
Health	The building up of a chemical compound in the physiologic processes of a living organism. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top

Synonym: Biosynthesis

Synonym: biogenesis (n). (additional references)

Top

Crosswords: Biosynthesis

English words defined with "biosynthesis": biosynthetic. (references)

Specialty definitions using "biosynthesis": 1-Methyl-4-phenylpyridinium, 1-Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase, 1-Phosphatidylinositol 4-Kinase ♦ 2-Acetolactate Mutase, 2-Dehydro-3-Deoxyphosphoheptonate Aldolase ♦ 5-Aminolevulinate Synthetase ♦ Acetolactate Synthase, Acetyl Coenzyme A, Acyl Coenzyme A, Adenylosuccinate Lyase, Adenylosuccinate Synthase, Aldosterone Antagonists, Amidophosphoribosyltransferase, Androgen Antagonists, Arachidonic Acid, Aspartokinase Homoserine Dehydrogenase, ATP Phosphoribosyltransferase, Aurintricarboxylic Acid, AY-9944, Azauridine ♦ Cerulenin, Choline Kinase, Choline-Phosphate Cytidylyltransferase, Clotrimazole, Coproporphyrinogen Oxidase, Coproporphyrinogens, Cystathionine beta-Synthase, Cystathionine gamma-Lyase, Cysteine Synthase, Cytidine Diphosphate Choline, Cytidine Diphosphate Diglycerides ♦ Dihydroorotase, Dihydroorotate Oxidase, Dihydroxyacetone Phosphate, Dimethylallyltranstransferase, Dolichol Monophosphate Mannose ♦ Estradiol Antagonists, Estrogen Antagonists ♦ Fenclonine, FLA 63 ♦ Globosides, Glyceraldehyde 3-Phosphate ♦ Histidinol, Histidinol-Phosphatase, Homoserine Dehydrogenase, Hormone Antagonists, Hydroxymethylglutaryl CoA Reductases, Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Synthase, Hypoxanthine Phosphoribosyltransferase ♦ Insulin Antagonists, Integrase Inhibitors ♦ Meclofenamic Acid, Meglutol ♦ neopterin, Nicotinamide-Nucleotide Adenylyltransferase ♦ Ornithine Decarboxylase, Orotate Phosphoribosyltransferase, Orotidine-5'-Phosphate Decarboxylase ♦ Palmitoyl Coenzyme A, Phosphodiesterase Inhibitors, Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase, Phosphoribosyl Pyrophosphate, Polyisoprenyl Phosphate Monosaccharides, Polyisoprenyl Phosphate Oligosaccharides, Polyisoprenyl Phosphate Sugars, Prephenate Dehydratase, Prephenate Dehydrogenase, Prostaglandin Endoperoxides, Prostaglandins G, Prostaglandins H, Protease Inhibitors, Psychosine ♦ RNA, Transfer, Amino Acyl ♦ Spermidine Synthase, Spermine Synthase, Steroid 17 alpha-Monooxygenase ♦ Threonine Dehydratase, Tryptophan Hydroxylase ♦ Uridine Diphosphate Glucuronic Acid, Uroporphyrinogen Decarboxylase, Uroporphyrinogens ♦ Zinostatin. (references)

Top

Commercial Usage: Biosynthesis

Domain	Title
Books	Bioorganic Chemistry: Deoxysugars, Polyketides and Related Classes: Synthesis, Biosynthesis, Enzymes (Springer Desktop Editions in Chemistry) (reference) Chemical Aspects of Biosynthesis (Oxford Chemistry Primers, No 20) (reference) Chromaffin Cell: Transmitter Biosynthesis, Storage, Release, Actions, and Informatics (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences) (reference) Methods in Enzymology: Carotenoids: Part B: Metabolism, Genetics, and Biosynthesis (reference) Protein Biosynthesis in Eukarotes (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top

Usage Frequency: Biosynthesis

"Biosynthesis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Biosynthesis" is used about 29 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	29	64,444

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Top

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Biosynthesis

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
biosynthesis	17
biosynthesis of cholesterol	4
acid biosynthesis fatty in	3
biosynthesis polyamine	3
acid biosynthesis fatty	2
acid biosynthesis fatty in synthesis	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top

Modern Translations: Biosynthesis

Language		Translations for "biosynthesis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		�"�物合成 (biosynthetic). (various references)

Danish		biosyntese. (various references)

Dutch		biosynthese. (various references)

Finnish		biosynteesi. (various references)

French		biosynthèse. (various references)

German		Biosynthese. (various references)

Greek		βιοσύνθεση πρωτεϊνών (protein biosynthesis, protein synthesis), πρωτεϊνοσύνθεση (protein biosynthesis, protein synthesis). (various references)

Italian		biosintesi. (various references)

Pig Latin		iosynthesisbay

Portuguese		biossíntese, biossíntese. (various references)

Russian		биосинтез. (various references)

Spanish		biosíntesis. (various references)

Swedish		biosyntes. (various references)

Ukranian		біосинтез. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top

Misspellings: Biosynthesis

Misspellings
	"Biosynthesis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: biosynthesia. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Top

Anagrams: Biosynthesis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-h-i-i-n-o-s-s-s-t-y"
	-2 letters: boyishness.
	-3 letters: stonishes, synthesis.
	-4 letters: bhisties, bossiest, histones, inosites, isohyets, noisiest, shiniest, sonsiest, stenosis, stibines.
	-5 letters: benthos, bhistie, biotins, boniest, bossies, bothies, essoins, ethions, henbits, hissies, histone, honesty, hostess, hotness, inosite, insists, ionises, isohyet, nosiest, obesity, osseins, seisins, session, shyness, sithens, stibine, stonish, synesis.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.