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Accession
GO:0005996
Name
monosaccharide metabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
monosaccharide metabolism
Alternate IDs
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Definition
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. Source: ISBN:0198506732
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History
See term history for GO:0005996 at QuickGO
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Parents of monosaccharide metabolic process (GO:0005996)
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monosaccharide metabolic process [RO:0004007 relation] RO:0004007  monosaccharide (CHEBI:35381)
monosaccharide metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  carbohydrate metabolic process (GO:0005975)
monosaccharide metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  small molecule metabolic process (GO:0044281)
Children of monosaccharide metabolic process (GO:0005996)
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monosaccharide biosynthetic process (GO:0046364) [is_a relation] is_a  monosaccharide metabolic process
L-ascorbic acid metabolic process (GO:0019852) [is_a relation] is_a  monosaccharide metabolic process
Entner-Doudoroff pathway through gluconate to D-glyceraldehyde (GO:0061680) [is_a relation] is_a  monosaccharide metabolic process
2-dehydro-3-deoxy-D-gluconic acid metabolic process (GO:1901272) [is_a relation] is_a  monosaccharide metabolic process
1,5-anhydro-D-fructose metabolic process (GO:1901801) [is_a relation] is_a  monosaccharide metabolic process
keto-3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonic acid metabolic process (GO:0046400) [is_a relation] is_a  monosaccharide metabolic process
D-galacturonate metabolic process (GO:0046396) [is_a relation] is_a  monosaccharide metabolic process
monosaccharide catabolic process (GO:0046365) [is_a relation] is_a  monosaccharide metabolic process
pentose metabolic process (GO:0019321) [is_a relation] is_a  monosaccharide metabolic process
hexose metabolic process (GO:0019318) [is_a relation] is_a  monosaccharide metabolic process
tetrose metabolic process (GO:0033347) [is_a relation] is_a  monosaccharide metabolic process
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