Biological process

GO:0043284

biopolymer biosynthetic process, macromolecule anabolism, macromolecule biosynthesis, macromolecule formation, macromolecule synthesis

The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of a macromolecule, any molecule of high relative molecular mass, the structure of which essentially comprises the multiple repetition of units derived, actually or conceptually, from molecules of low relative molecular mass.

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