catabolic
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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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On the other hand, the catabolic process of breaking sugar down into simpler molecules releases energy in a series of exergonic reactions.
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This is a metabolic process, but is neither anabolic nor catabolic.
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This is both an anabolic and a catabolic process.
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She has, if you please, become temporarily catabolic.
From A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions. by Eugene Arthur Hecker
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