respiratory chain
Biochemistry
noun
The sequence of enzymes and other proteins within a mitochondrial or cell membrane, or of reactions, by which substrates are oxidized in the biochemical process of respiration.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in The Biological Bulletin.
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