biophysics vs physics

biophysics and physics both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
biophysics	Yes	No	No	No
physics	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, physics is a hypernym of biophysics; that is, physics is a word with a broader meaning than biophysics:

Other hypernyms of biophysics include natural philosophy.

biophysics (noun)	physics (noun)
physics as applied to biological problems	the science of matter and energy and their interactions
	the physical properties, phenomena, and laws of something