catabolic

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Physical exercise involves both catabolic and anabolic processes.

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Physical exercise involves both anabolic and catabolic processes.

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

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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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One had an anabolic metabolism, one a catabolic.

From The Venus Trap by Smith, Evelyn E.