| id | GO:0005996 Detailed information
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| name | monosaccharide metabolic process
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| namespace | biological_process
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| def | "The chemical reactions and pathways involving monosaccharides, the simplest carbohydrates. They are polyhydric alcohols containing either an aldehyde or a keto group and between three to ten or more carbon atoms. They form the constitutional repeating units of oligo- and polysaccharides." [ISBN:0198506732 "Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology"]
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| subset | gosubset_prok
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| synonym | "monosaccharide metabolism" EXACT []
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| is_a | GO:0006066 ! alcohol metabolic process
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| is_a | GO:0044262 ! cellular carbohydrate metabolic process
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