catabolic

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Physical exercise involves both anabolic and catabolic processes.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Anabolic pathways build new molecules out of the products of catabolic pathways.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Metabolic pathways are wasteful as they perform uncoordinated catabolic and anabolic reactions that wastes some of the energy that is stored.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Remember that anabolic cellular pathways require energy to synthesize complex molecules from simpler ones and catabolic pathways release energy when complex molecules are broken down.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013

She has, if you please, become temporarily catabolic.

From A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions. by Hecker, Eugene Arthur