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Metabolism

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

The act or process by which living tissues or cells take up and convert into their own proper substance the nutritive material brought to them by the blood or by which they transform their cell protoplasm into simpler substances which are fitted either for excretion or for some special purpose as in the manufacture of the digestive enzymes Hence metabolism may be either constructive anabolism or destructive catabolism

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