what are isolated metabolic reaction?

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Isolated metabolism means metabolic reaction inside a cell in vitro means in a test tube. It is not considered as non-living because it include biological cell and its machinery and it is not considered living because it does not perform functions that a living organism do like it do not take its nutrition, it do not carry out reproduction etc.

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