MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does molecular biology mean? 

• MOLECULAR BIOLOGY (noun)
  The noun MOLECULAR BIOLOGY has 1 sense:

1. the branch of biology that studies the structure and activity of macromolecules essential to life (and especially with their genetic role)

  Familiarity information: MOLECULAR BIOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOLECULAR BIOLOGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of biology that studies the structure and activity of macromolecules essential to life (and especially with their genetic role)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("molecular biology" is a kind of...):

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

Domain member category:

cistron; factor; gene ((genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "molecular biology"):

biotech; biotechnology (the branch of molecular biology that studies the use of microorganisms to perform specific industrial processes)

 Context examples 

Production of genetic alterations by any technique, including chemicals, radiation, recombination, or other molecular biology methods.

(Mutagenesis, NCI Thesaurus)

A molecular biology technique used to detect the interaction of a DNA binding protein with its cognate binding sequence.

(Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assay, NCI Thesaurus)

NIH Emphasis Area — The result of efforts in chemistry, structural biology, genetics, and cellular and molecular biology are providing new means to design therapies for a variety of diseases.

(New Avenues for the Development of Therapeutics, NCI Thesaurus)

A common molecular biology procedure for detection of RNA molecules.

(Northern Blotting, NCI Thesaurus)

Interdisciplinary studies combining cell biology and molecular biology.

(Molecular and Cellular Biology, NCI Thesaurus)

Molecular Biology Shared Resource provides molecular biology services to the Cancer Center investigators including automated DNA sequencing, DNA and peptide synthesis, protein sequencing, amino acid analysis, BIAcore protein ligand assays, and mass spectrometry.

(Molecular Biology Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

The application of molecular biology techniques in answering epidemiological questions.

(Molecular Epidemiology, NCI Thesaurus)

Molecular biology technique that facilitates cloning or identification of specific proteins or peptides with a specific antigenic, ligand or protein-binding, enzymatic, or other biological property.

(Phage Display, NCI Thesaurus)

In molecular biology, the bromide salt of ethidium is used to detect and visualize DNA after electrophoresis or in cytochemical preparations.

(Homidium Chloride, NCI Thesaurus)

Red seaweeds are also used as food thickeners and emulsifiers and in molecular biology experiments.

(Red seaweeds, including those in sushi, thrive despite ancestor's loss of genes, National Science Foundation)