anabolism
新陈代谢,合成代谢,同化作用,代谢
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Biology, Physiology.
- : constructive metabolism; the synthesis in living organisms of more complex substances from simpler ones.
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In this way, anabolism and catabolism exist in balance with each other and are the ying and the yang of metabolism.
Anabolism requires the input of energy, in the form of food calories, and is the process by which the body stores energy.
Anabolism, the formation of more complex chemical bodies by the agency of protoplasm, 86.
In the processes of anabolism the products absorbed are built into the tissues and cells of the body.
The processes concerned in metabolism are chiefly those of building up, “anabolism,” and breaking down, “catabolism.”
Similar considerations as to the formation and breaking up of the molecules in anabolism and catabolism apply to polymerization.
Of course this may be a matter of anabolism, pure and simple.