id | GO:0006006   Detailed information
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  name | glucose metabolic process
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  namespace | biological_process
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  def | "The chemical reactions and pathways involving glucose, the aldohexose gluco-hexose. D-glucose is dextrorotatory and is sometimes known as dextrose; it is an important source of energy for living organisms and is found free as well as combined in homo- and hetero-oligosaccharides and polysaccharides." [ISBN:0198506732]
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  subset | gosubset_prok
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  is_a | GO:0019318 ! hexose metabolic process
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