catabolic
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This is a metabolic process, but is neither anabolic nor catabolic.
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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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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.
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Molecular energy stored in the bonds of complex molecules is released in catabolic pathways and harvested in such a way that it can be used to produce ATP.
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One had an anabolic metabolism, one a catabolic.
From The Venus Trap by Smith, Evelyn E.
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