catabolic

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The cell responds to the abundance of specific products by slowing down production during anabolic or catabolic reactions.

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Figure 7.18 Glycogen from the liver and muscles, hydrolyzed into glucose-1-phosphate, together with fats and proteins, can feed into the catabolic pathways for carbohydrates.

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

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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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She has, if you please, become temporarily catabolic.

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