What term describes the conversion of nutritive material into complex living matter?

a. Catabolism
b. Metabolism
c. Retabolism
d. Anabolism


ANS: D
Also called constructive metabolism, anabolism is the conversion of nutritive material into complex living matter; also referred to as tissue construction.

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