In this process, hydrocarbons found in crude oil are broken down into a range of simpler chemical compounds.
Polymer, any of a class of natural or synthetic substances composed of very large molecules, called macromolecules, that are multiples of simpler chemical units called monomers.
The current scientific consensus is that the complex biochemistry that makes up life came from simpler chemical reactions.
Some successes are already evident in the literature on simpler chemical mixtures.
We would not use this method, since there are better and simpler chemical modification methods.
This process involves many enzymes that catalyze 10 different chemical reactions, and it essentially converts glucose step-by-step into a simpler chemical called pyruvate.
Our very first experiments involved petri dishes, incubators, toothpicks and simple chemicals.
Collectively, microorganisms show remarkable diversity in their ability to produce complex substances from simple chemicals and to decompose complex materials to simple chemicals.
This is an old-fashioned drain-cleaner consisting of simple chemicals, unfortunately with poisonous side-effects.
