molting cycle, chitin-based cuticle cuticle development involved in chitin-based cuticle molting cycle cuticle anabolism during molting cuticle biosynthetic process during molting GO:0042337 chitin-based cuticle development during molting cuticle synthesis during molting This term was obsoleted because it is a pre-composed term that should be captured as a GO-CAM model. cuticle formation during molting The synthesis and deposition of a chitin-based non-cellular, hardened, or membranous secretion from an epithelial sheet, occurring as part of the molting cycle. An example of this is found in Drosophila melanogaster. biological_process