catabolic
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The cell responds to the abundance of specific products by slowing down production during anabolic or catabolic reactions.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
This is a metabolic process, but is neither anabolic nor catabolic.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Anabolic pathways build new molecules out of the products of catabolic pathways.
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
One had an anabolic metabolism, one a catabolic.
From The Venus Trap by Smith, Evelyn E.