In the processes of anabolism the products absorbed are built into the tissues and cells of the body.
Consider, for example, a centre of anabolism in a living organism.
Similar considerations as to the formation and breaking up of the molecules in anabolism and catabolism apply to polymerization.
We may thus regard every centre of anabolism as a negative pole of diffusion.
Sidenote: Why muscular work produces warmth] The process of anabolism usually absorbs energy or heat from the surrounding material, while catabolism produces heat as a result of oxidation, as do ordinary fuels.
Sidenote: Distinction between anabolismand catabolism] The process of metabolism is chiefly one of tearing apart, or of breaking down, complex chemical substances into simpler forms of matter.
Anabolism and katabolism are the two sides of protoplasmic life, and the major rhythms of the respective preponderance of these give the antitheses of growth and multiplication, asexual and sexual reproduction.
The sap of plants is thin and watery, corresponding with the preponderant anabolism of the plant.
Woman's resistance to death is thus more marked at the two extremes of life, infancy and old age, the periods in which her anabolism is uninterrupted.
A very noticeable expression of the anabolism of woman is her tendency to put on fat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "anabolism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
