catabolic

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The digestible carbohydrates in an animal’s diet are converted to glucose molecules through a series of catabolic chemical reactions.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

This is a metabolic process, but is neither anabolic nor catabolic.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Figure 4.20 Glycogen from the liver and muscles, together with fats, can feed into the catabolic pathways for carbohydrates.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013

Several of the intermediate compounds in the citric acid cycle can be used in synthesizing non-essential amino acids; therefore, the cycle is both anabolic and catabolic.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013

One had an anabolic metabolism, one a catabolic.

From The Venus Trap by Smith, Evelyn E.