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bioprotective

bioprotective adjective: biologically of biochemically protective.

Adjective

bioprotective (comparative more bioprotective, superlative most bioprotective)

  1. biologically of biochemically protective
    • Nowadays, low trehalose levels found in some desiccation resistant animals like tardigrades or monogonont eggs, and in some plants, suggest that trehalose does not only act as bioprotective molecule but could be used alternatively as a signaling molecule.2015 July 11, “Against All Odds: Trehalose-6-Phosphate Synthase and Trehalase Genes in the Bdelloid Rotifer Adineta vaga Were Acquired by Horizontal Gene Transfer and Are Upregulated during...

Forms of bioprotective

comparativemore bioprotective
superlativemost bioprotective

Origin of bioprotective

From bio- + protective.

Questions about bioprotective

What does bioprotective mean?
Bioprotective means biologically of biochemically protective.
What part of speech is bioprotective?
Bioprotective is an adjective.

Words near bioprotective in the dictionary

  1. bioprosthetic
  2. bioprosthetics
  3. bioprotectant
  4. bioprotectants
  5. bioprotection
  6. bioprotective
  7. bioprotein
  8. bioproteins
  9. bioprotonic
  10. bioprotonics
  11. bioprovince

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