id | GO:0006012   Detailed information |
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  name | galactose metabolic process |
  namespace | biological_process |
  def | "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." [ISBN:0198506732 "Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology"] |
  subset | gosubset_prok |
  synonym | "galactose metabolism" EXACT [] |
  xref | Wikipedia:Galactose |
  is_a | GO:0019318 ! hexose metabolic process |
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