Planteome: Term Details for "galactose metabolic process" (GO:0006012)

Accession: GO:0006012
Name: galactose metabolic process
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: galactose metabolism
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The chemical reactions and pathways involving galactose, the aldohexose galacto-hexose. D-galactose is widely distributed in combined form in plants, animals and microorganisms as a constituent of oligo- and polysaccharides; it also occurs in galactolipids and as its glucoside in lactose and melibiose. Source: ISBN:0198506732
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0006012 at QuickGO
Subset: None
Related: Link to all annotated objects annotated to galactose metabolic process.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to galactose metabolic process.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for galactose metabolic process.
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subject	relation	object
galactose metabolic process	is_a	hexose metabolic process (GO:0019318)

subject	relation	object
galactose catabolic process (GO:0019388)	is_a	galactose metabolic process
galactose biosynthetic process (GO:0046369)	is_a	galactose metabolic process
galactose to glucose-1-phosphate metabolic process (GO:0061612)	is_a	galactose metabolic process
beta-D-galactofuranose metabolic process (GO:1901356)	is_a	galactose metabolic process