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Oxidative phosphorylation respiratory chain phosphorylation 7. A subdiscipline of both biology and chemistry, biochemistry can be divided in three fields. Abstract the last decade has seen enormous progress in the exploration and understanding of the behavior of molecules in their natural cellular environments at increasingly high spatial and temporal resolution. Polymerase chain reaction was developed by kary mullis in 1983.
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