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