Metabolism and katabolism, indeed all cell-activity, are a priori performances of the mind.
The former is constructive metabolism, or anabolism; the latter, destructive metabolism, or katabolism.
Katabolism, the formation of less complex chemical bodies by the agency of protoplasm, 86.
But the biological atoms are living, that is to say, they are continually undergoing anabolism and katabolism, growth and decay.
