catabolic

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Physical exercise involves both anabolic and catabolic processes.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

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

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

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

One had an anabolic metabolism, one a catabolic.

From The Venus Trap by Smith, Evelyn E.