Concept: metabolism in the concept vocabulary

Concept URI	http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/5161
Preferred label	metabolism
Definition	All the chemical reactions that take place in a living organism, comprising both anabolism and catabolism. Basal metabolism is the energy exchange of an animal at rest. Catabolism is the synthesis of complex molecules from simpler ones. Catabolism is the breaking down by organisms of complex molecules into simpler ones with the liberation of energy.
Notation
Status	Valid
Status Modified	2013-12-05
Accepted Date	2013-12-05
Not Accepted Date
Has broader	10003 (animal life) in gemet2/concept
Has narrower	5165 (metabolite) in gemet2/concept 5269 (mineralisation) in gemet2/concept 605 (assimilation) in gemet2/concept 7176 (respiration) in gemet2/concept 8630 (transpiration) in gemet2/concept 882 (bioluminescence) in gemet2/concept 895 (biosynthesis) in gemet2/concept
Has exact match	http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_4769
Has close match	http://data.uba.de/umt/_00023573 http://dbpedia.org/resource/Metabolism
Source	ALL (Macmillan Dictionary of the Environment - Third Edition) in gemet2/source