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(biochemistry) of a process accompanied by or requiring the absorption of energy; the products of the process are of greater free energy than the reactants.

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  • Real cells link non-spontaneous processes, called endergonic, which do not occur without the addition of free energy, to spontaneous processes which supply that free energy.
  • A continuously increasing number of enzymatic reactions are becoming known in which the energy of adenosine triphosphate, the compound isolated by his associate Lohmann,...
  • How might fish consumption advisories take this into account? would an endergonic reaction reult in the production of ATP or ADP molecules?
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