photoinactivation
Biochemistry
noun
Destruction of the biological activity of an enzyme, virus, etc., by light.
Origin
1930s.
- bactericidal
- bactericide
- bacterio-
- bacteriocin
- bacteriocyte
- bacteriologic
- bacteriological
- bacteriologically
- bacteriologist
- bacteriology
- bacteriolysis
- bacteriolytic
- bacteriophage
- bacteriopheophytin
- bacterioplankton
- bacteriorhodopsin
- bacteriostasis
- bacteriostat
- bacteriostatic
- bacteriostatically
- bacterium
- bacteriuria
- bacterization
- bacterize
- bacteroid