Metabolism encompasses the many reactions that take place in cells. to build tissue, produce energy, break down compounds, and do other cellular work. Anabolism refers to reactions that build compounds, such as protein or glycogen. Ca. -. tabolism is the breakdown of compounds to yield energy.
The one experiment that led to the changes to the original cell theory was the experiment that established the existence of single celled organisms and microbes. 1  Comments. 2  Report.
The AveryâMacLeodâMcCarty experiment was an experimental demonstration, reported in 1944 by Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty, that DNA is the substance that causes bacterial transformation, in an era when it had been widely believed that it was proteins that served the function of carrying genetic information (with the very word protein itself coined to indicate a belief that its function was primary).