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2. Breakdown of compounds that take several years to decompose, e.g. cellulose (an insoluble carbohydrate found in plants) and lignin (a very complicated structure that is part of wood).

That's why the standard treatment for TB calls for the use of combinations of drugs; mixing and matching compounds that take different routes to destroy the disease-bearing bugs.

In living cells, many of the compounds that take part in metabolism exist as negatively charged moieties, or anions, and are named as such in most of this article (e.g., pyruvate, oxaloacetate).

4. Breakdown of compounds that take tens, hundreds or thousands of years to decompose.

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From this root vegetable he isolated a compound that took one simple step to convert into progesterone for the first contraceptive pill.

As a result, we are missing out on all of that compounding that takes place over time.

3. Breakdown of compounds that can take up to ten years to decompose, e.g. some waxes and the phenols.

This changed during the 1920s, when Alexander I. Oparin, a young Russian biochemist, proposed that life had been preceded by a lengthy period of abiotic syntheses and accumulation of organic compounds that had taken place soon after the Earth was formed.

(In the meantime, he'll hand back to you two diplomatic compounds that were taken by the U.S. in late December as punishment for Moscow's interference in the 2016 presidential election).

The above-ground plant parts are dependent on the inorganic and organic compounds that are taken up or produced by the roots and distributed by the xylem network.

Smolke's yeast — which contains 23 engineered genes from plants, bacteria and rats — is capable of making a direct conversion from sugar to hydrocodone, as well as from sugar to thebaine, a precursor of opioid compounds that would essentially take the place of poppies in the production of pain medication, but would still requite refinement.

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