catabolic

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

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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.

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Anabolic pathways build new molecules out of the products of catabolic pathways.

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This is a metabolic process, but is neither anabolic nor catabolic.

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One had an anabolic metabolism, one a catabolic.

From The Venus Trap by Smith, Evelyn E.