Lecture Materials
Unit III: Metabolism and Bioenergetics
Lecture 7 - Introduction to Metabolism
Metabolism is the sum total of the all of the reactions that take place in a living cell. Metabolism can be divided into two main categories, catabolism, which is the aggregate of the reactions involved in breaking down food molecules to extract their chemical energy and to produce starting material for the biosynthetic reactions, and anabolism, which comprises the biosynthetic reactions.
- Lecture 7, 1. April, 2015 (Draft)