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anabolism

noun as in assimilation

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Urea is a product of the metabolism, not anabolism – building – of amino acids, which is why answer B is incorrect.

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“Unlike fat or carbohydrate, the human body has limited capacity to transiently store ‘excess’ dietary protein from a single meal to acutely stimulate muscle protein anabolism at a later time.”

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Pertaining to anabolism; an anabolic changes, or processes, more or less constructive in their nature.

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We may thus regard every centre of anabolism as a negative pole of diffusion.

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The processes concerned in metabolism are chiefly those of building up, “anabolism,” and breaking down, “catabolism.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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