Fig. 5
From: The relationship between biological function and teleology: Implications for biology education
(modified after F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, http://biochemical-pathways.com/#/map/1; for both a more comprehensive and a more detailed overview of metabolic mechanisms open the original map by F.Hoffmann-La Roche online)
Schema of metabolic mechanisms, chunked according to their contributions to the organism. Biologists differentiate individual mechanisms epistemologically in terms of their contributions to capacities of the organism that serve survival or reproduction