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A simple orienting response, either positively or negatively to a chemical or stimulus or stimuli. The growth or movement of an organism in response to a chemical stimulus, such as the movement of bacteria toward nutrients.  

Synthesis of organic compounds from inorganic materials using other chemical reactions as an energy source rather than radiant energy as is found in photosynthesis. The formation of a chemical compound from other chemicals or agents. In biological systems, this involves metabolism.  

The use of caustic chemicals to remove diseased or unwanted tissue. Destruction of malignant or otherwise diseased tissue by use of chemicals (e.g., in the treatment of skin cancer). Destruction of tissue by the use of chemical compounds.  

An area of any cells that are activated by a change in their chemical milieu and that thereby originate a flow of nervous impulses.    

Organisms, e.g., bacteria, that are able to manufacture their own basic foods with chemical energy, autotrophic. Capable of oxidizing a reduced molecule in the presence of other inorganic materials in order to synthesize carbohydrates. Chemoautotrophy is a characteristic nutritional strategy of the Proteobacteria.  

The letter or letters used by chemists to represent an element. Letters which represent a chemical substance.  

The arrangement of atoms in a molecule or of molecules in a compound.  

An index of protein quality that compares the essential amino acid content of a test protein with that of a standard protein.  

The name used to describe the. molecular structure of a drug. The exact description of the chemical structure of a drug, based on the rules of standard chemical nomenclature, such as the tranquilizer with the chemical name 2-methyl-2-propyl, 8-propenediol dicarbamate. While long and cumbersome, this name is also precise, serving as a complete identification of…

A drug that contains the same amount of the same active ingredients in the same dosage form as contained in generic or brand name drugs.