For example, breathing through the mouth affects hundreds of biochemical and physiological processes in the human body.
Scientists have even engineered artificial switches to start glowing or giving off some kind of electrochemical or biochemical signal once they are switched "on."
An individual shows he (or she) has resources to burn-whether those are biochemical reserves, time or, in the human instance, money-by using them to make costly signals.
Water also plays an important role in biochemical cell reactions and makes them more efficient.
Other issues include scaling-down problems that occur with biochemical reactions, such as diffusion rates and heating.
Then don't think about the neuroscience experiments that show the biochemical side of placebo - it has a real, chemical effect on the brain that researchers can learn to manipulate.
And they carry out various biochemical processes in your intestine and they help you digest food.
They argue that consciousness of a decision may be a mere biochemical afterthought with no influence whatsoever on a person's actions.
"because the nitrogen atom of its amino group is part of a ring structure (making it a heterocyclic compound), its chemical properties differ from those of the other amino acids in proteins. It is used in biochemical, nutritional, and microbiological research and as a dietary supplement. "
Birds, which also eat fruits, don’t have the same biochemical pain pathway, so they don’t suffer at all from capsaicin.
Rats and humans have similar biochemical pathways.
But, whereas therapies and diagnostics for cancer have been evolving steadily in response to new biochemical knowledge, surgical techniques have remained surprisingly primitive.
All these laid down a soild foundation for researches on aphid metabolism, identification of insecticide, the physiological and biochemical resistance mechanism of crops to aphid.
It is thought that biochemical changes in the uterus have an impact on the baby's development, affecting its birth weight and even the child's future risk of disease, among other things.
They disassemble sugar molecules and turn the energy thus liberated into a form that biochemical machinery can use.
On a biochemical level, a Carbohydrate is a simple fusion of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen molecules.