Sentence examples for metabolize from inspiring English sources

In most cells that metabolize glucose, the sugar first breaks down in a set of steps that occur in the absence of oxygen.

Second, sewage-treatment plants purify water by exploiting the biochemical abilities of microbes to metabolize contaminants.

Some genera may be amoeboid during part of the life cycle; others may include a palmella stage, a condition in which the cells occur in a mucilaginous mass but continue to metabolize.

Individuals deficient in lactase cannot metabolize lactose, a condition called lactose intolerance.

When the bacterium Escherichia coli must metabolize lactose, it co-transports hydrogen ions with lactose (which can reach a concentration 1,000 times higher than that outside the cell).

Microbes metabolize the organic waste material and reduce its volume by as much as 50 percent.

The described dichotomy is clearly part of a much wider one: civilizations fall apart yet their component societies live on; societies disintegrate but their citizens survive; individuals die while their cells, perversely, still metabolize; finally, cells can be disrupted yet the enzymes they release may, for a while, remain active.

Cellulose consists of multiple glucose molecules, arranged in such a way that most organisms are unable to efficiently metabolize the compound.

In addition, oxidative enzymes in fruits continue to carry out cellular respiration (the process of using oxygen to metabolize glucose for energy).

The kidney's ability to reabsorb sugar (glucose) is lower during pregnancy, and for this reason many pregnant women have transient periods during which their urine contains small amounts of glucose; such women have unimpaired ability to metabolize carbohydrates and have normal sugar levels in the blood.

They readily enter liver cells (one of the main sites of drug metabolism) and are consequently liable to be rapidly metabolized and inactivated.