Which type of metabolic pathway involves building biomass?

a. catabolic
b. parabolic
c. irreversible
d. anabolic


Ans: d. anabolic

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A. energy. B. raw materials. C. space. D. waste products.

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You are interested in designing an experiment to test the hypothesis that frogs use the same genetic code as humans. Which of the following experiments would not give you useful data to test this hypothesis?

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