catabolic

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Physical exercise involves both anabolic and catabolic processes.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

This is both an anabolic and a catabolic process.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

On the other hand, the catabolic process of breaking sugar down into simpler molecules releases energy in a series of exergonic reactions.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Several of the intermediate compounds in the citric acid cycle can be used in synthesizing non-essential amino acids; therefore, the cycle is both anabolic and catabolic.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013

One had an anabolic metabolism, one a catabolic.

From The Venus Trap by Smith, Evelyn E.