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Definition of Constructive metabolism
1. Noun. The synthesis in living organisms of more complex substances (e.g., living tissue) from simpler ones together with the storage of energy.
Generic synonyms: Absorption, Assimilation
Group relationships: Metabolic Process, Metabolism
Derivative terms: Anabolic, Anabolic
Antonyms: Catabolism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Constructive Metabolism
Literary usage of Constructive metabolism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Grand Strategy of Evolution: The Social Philosophy of a Biologist by William Patten (1920)
"... CHAPTER VI BENEVOLENCE AND DISCIPLINE The constructive metabolism of Egoism
and Altruism—The Merging of Egoism and Altruism into Organization, ..."
2. An Introduction to Vegetable Physiology by Joseph Reynolds Green (1907)
"The growth of the living substance is always the result of constructive metabolism,
and is attended by an increase of bulk and weight. ..."
3. An Introduction to Vegetable Physiology by Joseph Reynolds Green (1907)
"The growth of the living substance is always the result of constructive metabolism,
and is attended by an increase of bulk and weight. ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In discussing the constructive metabolism of green plants it was pointed out that
such can only assimilate their food—that is, can only construct protoplasm ..."
5. Practical physiological chemistry by Philip Bovier Hawk (1918)
"There are two types of metabolism, one constructive, the other destructive.
The constructive metabolism is termed anabolism; the destructive ..."
6. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The fact of the dependence of green plante upon exposure to light suggests that
the energy necessary for the processes of their constructive metabolism is ..."
7. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1892)
"The energy expended in the work of constructive metabolism is stored up as ...
These obvious manifestations of energy in constructive metabolism are, ..."
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