catabolic
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Metabolic pathways are wasteful as they perform uncoordinated catabolic and anabolic reactions that wastes some of the energy that is stored.
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Physical exercise involves both anabolic and catabolic processes.
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Additionally, ATP is an allosteric regulator of some of the enzymes involved in the catabolic breakdown of sugar, the process that produces ATP.
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This is both an anabolic and a catabolic process.
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One had an anabolic metabolism, one a catabolic.
From The Venus Trap by Smith, Evelyn E.