macromolecule
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See also: macromolécule
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macromolecule (plural macromolecules)
- (organic chemistry, biochemistry) A very large molecule, especially used in reference to large biological polymers (e.g. nucleic acids and proteins).
- 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 345:
- Beadle discovered that genes carried instructions to build proteins—complex, multidimensional macromolecules that were the workhorses of the cell.
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large molecule
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