catabolic

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Figure 7.18 Glycogen from the liver and muscles, hydrolyzed into glucose-1-phosphate, together with fats and proteins, can feed into the catabolic pathways for carbohydrates.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Physical exercise involves both anabolic and catabolic processes.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Additionally, ATP is an allosteric regulator of some of the enzymes involved in the catabolic breakdown of sugar, the process that creates ATP.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013

The cell responds to an abundance of the products by slowing down production during anabolic or catabolic reactions.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013

One had an anabolic metabolism, one a catabolic.

From The Venus Trap by Smith, Evelyn E.