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Process of molecular synthesis
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anabolism
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Anabolism (from , "upward" and , "to throw") is the set of metabolic pathways that construct molecules from smaller units. These reactions require energy . One way of categorizing metabolic processes, whether at the cellular , organ or organism level, is ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Metabolism \Me*tab"o*lism\, n. (Physiol.) The act or process, by which living tissues or cells take up and convert into their own proper substance the nutritive material brought to them by the blood, or by which they transform their cell protoplasm into ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1886; see anabolic + -ism .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. synthesis of more complex substances from simpler ones [syn: constructive metabolism ] [ant: catabolism ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The constructive metabolism of the body, as distinguished from catabolism.
Usage examples of anabolism.
Biological processes of some sort were taking place here, anabolism, catabolism, ingestion, respiration, reproduction, whatever.
An unbiological order, I call it, because it obeys none of the natural laws of hereditary and environmental change, pays no attention to the survival of the fittest, positively sneers at any attempt on the part of man to work out a rational life cycle, is possibly immortal, unquestionably immoral, evidences anabolism but not katabolism, ruts, spawns, and breeds but does not reproduce, lays no eggs, builds no nests, seeks but does not find, wanders but does not rest.
Biological processes of some sort were taking place here, anabolism, catabolism, ingestion, respiration, reproduction, whatever.