Class: Metabolism

Metabolism is the set of chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life.

Parents

is_a: ChemicalInteraction - A chemical interaction is a biochemical process in which chemical entities interact through some set of attractive forces.

Anabolism - Anabolism is the set of metabolic processes that construct larger chemical entities units from smaller chemical entities.
Catabolism - Anabolism is the set of metabolic processes that take apart larger chemical entities units into smaller chemical entities.

hasCreator _0..1
- Description: has creator is a relation between an entity and that which created it.
- Range: Entity
hasAttribute _0..1
- Description: has attribute is a relation that associates a entity with an attribute where an attribute is an intrinsic characteristic such as a quality, capability, disposition, function, or is an externally derived attribute determined from some descriptor (e.g. a quantity, position, label/identifier) either directly or indirectly through generalization of entities of the same type.
- Range: Entity
- satisfies _0..1
- Description: satisfies is a relation between an entity and the specification or objective that it conforms to.
- Range: Description
- isRelatedTo _0..1
- Description: A is related to B iff there is some relation between A and B.
- Range: Entity
- hasParticipant _0..1
- Description: has participant is a relation that describes the participation of the object in the (processual) subject.
- Range: Entity