The United States will need to design its overseas military presence. for the coming decades in a way that responds to the changing inter-. national security environment and that takes into account a view on. how the United States should see its future role in the world.
metabolism. 1  Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. 2  any basic process of organic functioning or operating: changes in the country's economic metabolism.
All are characteristics of metabolism EXCEPT: A. a process which synthesizes either energy or complex cellular substances. B. a process of intermediates. C. the conversion of food energy into energy of motion. D. a free-flow unregulated process. E. a process responding to the momentary energy requirements of a cell.