Metabolism
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- The biochemical processes that sustain a living cell or organism.
Susan Allender-Hagedorn and Charles Hagedorn - Cite This Source - This Definition - The biochemical processes whereby nutritive material is converted to living matter, or aids in building living matter, or by which complex substances and food are broken down into simple substances.
UN Food and Agriculture Organization - Cite This Source - This Definition - acclimatization, biotic factor, Ecosystem, microtubule, secondary metabolism