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Anabolism

noun
1.
The synthesis in living organisms of more complex substances (e.g., living tissue) from simpler ones together with the storage of energy.  Synonym: constructive metabolism.






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... of the world to take the form of alternate cycles, in which one or the other prevailed in turn. In all this he was plainly influenced by his physiological studies. He thinks of the world as an animal organism subject to what are now called anabolism and catabolism. The details of the theory make this quite clear. A similar doctrine was taught by Anaxagoras (c. 460 B. C.), who came from Clazomenae in Asia Minor to Athens after the Persian Wars, and was one of the teachers of Pericles. His doctrine ...
— The Legacy of Greece • Various



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