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glycerol metabolic process

Term Information

Accession
GO:0006071
Name
glycerol metabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
glycerol metabolism
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways involving glycerol, 1,2,3-propanetriol, a sweet, hygroscopic, viscous liquid, widely distributed in nature as a constituent of many lipids. Source: ISBN:0198506732, GOC:ai
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0006071 at QuickGO
Subset
None
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Parents of glycerol metabolic process (GO:0006071)
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glycerol metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  alditol metabolic process (GO:0019400)
Children of glycerol metabolic process (GO:0006071)
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glycerol catabolic process (GO:0019563) [is_a relation] is_a  glycerol metabolic process
glycerol to glycerone phosphate metabolic process (GO:0061610) [is_a relation] is_a  glycerol metabolic process
glycerol biosynthetic process (GO:0006114) [is_a relation] is_a  glycerol metabolic process