Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Requiring energy.
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- adjective chemistry Describing a
reaction that absorbs (heat )energy from its environment
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- adjective (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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[end(o)– + Greek ergon, work; see werg- in Indo-European roots + –ic.]
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Examples
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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.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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A continuously increasing number of enzymatic reactions are becoming known in which the energy of adenosine triphosphate, the compound isolated by his associate Lohmann, provides the energy for endergonic synthesis reactions.
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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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