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Metabolism

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noun

The process involving a set of chemical reactions that modifies a molecule into another for storage, or for immediate use in another reaction or as a by product.


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Metabolism includes processes for cell growth, reproduction, response to environment, survival mechanisms, sustenance, and maintenance of cell structure and integrity. It is made up of two categories: catabolism and anabolism.


Word origin: From Greek metabolē, change, from metaballein, to change : meta-, meta- + ballein, to throw.


Related terms: basal metabolism, carbohydrate metabolism, constructive metabolism, destructive metabolism, fat metabolism, inborn error of metabolism, inborn errors of metabolism, oxidative metabolism.

See also: anabolism, catabolism.


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Refutation of Evolution theory

... structures that were quasi-alive, possessing some of the characteristics of life, but not all of them. Viruses are a good example: they have no metabolism, but they do reproduce. Or prions: no one would argue that prions are alive in any meaningful sense, but they do produce more of themselves. ...

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by Luxorien
Mon Feb 04, 2013 10:28 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Refutation of Evolution theory
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Re: how to become healthy?

No worries man, it is not about the food is not getting digested it is more probably that you have high metabolism which means that your body’s energy needs is say 2000 calories and you are eating for example 2500 calories, your body will burn the 2000 calories (for basic functions ...

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by timiber013
Tue Jan 15, 2013 2:06 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: how to become healthy?
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BAP, brassinolide, triacontanol, Amino, kelp foliar question

... of aromatic substances? Ester of some sort. It must be an almost impossible job to purify and identify those several proteins involved in their metabolism without advanced equipments. Do you use a PCR machine? I have not the slightest how and what a "biochemist" does. I am trying to ...

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by Maton
Mon Dec 24, 2012 11:15 am
 
Forum: Botany Discussion
Topic: BAP, brassinolide, triacontanol, Amino, kelp foliar question
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BAP, brassinolide, triacontanol, Amino, kelp foliar question

... http://www.olchemim.cz/Products.aspx?idc=1 (but they have for example adenine under cytokinins, which is quite questionable...) My specialty is metabolism of isoprenoid cytokinins, I am purifying and identifying several proteins involved in their metabolism.

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by JackBean
Sun Dec 23, 2012 6:30 pm
 
Forum: Botany Discussion
Topic: BAP, brassinolide, triacontanol, Amino, kelp foliar question
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Views: 11685

ETC - purpose of having different dehydrogenases?

Not really loss of electrons, but inability to recycle NADH, which would block cellular metabolism.

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by JackBean
Sun Dec 16, 2012 10:27 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: ETC - purpose of having different dehydrogenases?
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