The synthesis of molecules of the sugar glucose within a living cell from something other than glycogen (a polysaccharide of glucose molecules).

From the BioTech Dictionary at http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/. For further information see the BioTech homenode.

Glu`co*gen"e*sis (?), n.

Glycogenesis.

[R.]

 

© Webster 1913.

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