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Term Information

Accession
GO:0019563
Name
glycerol catabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
glycerol breakdown, glycerol catabolism, glycerol degradation
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of glycerol, 1,2,3-propanetriol, a sweet, hygroscopic, viscous liquid, widely distributed in nature as a constituent of many lipids. Source: ISBN:0198506732, GOC:go_curators
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0019563 at QuickGO
Subset
None
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Parents of glycerol catabolic process (GO:0019563)
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glycerol catabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  alditol catabolic process (GO:0019405)
glycerol catabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  glycerol metabolic process (GO:0006071)
Children of glycerol catabolic process (GO:0019563)
subject[Reorder by subject] relation[Reorder by relation] object[Reorder by object]
anaerobic glycerol catabolic process (GO:0019588) [is_a relation] is_a  glycerol catabolic process
glycolytic process from glycerol (GO:0061613) [is_a relation] is_a  glycerol catabolic process
aerobic glycerol catabolic process (GO:0019564) [is_a relation] is_a  glycerol catabolic process
MetaCyc
PWY0-381
PWY-4261