chitin metabolic process

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• GO:0008150 biological_process
•      GO:0008152 metabolic process
•          GO:1901135 carbohydrate derivative metabolic process
•          GO:0071704 organic substance metabolic process
•              GO:0006040 amino sugar metabolic process
•              GO:0043170 macromolecule metabolic process
•              GO:1901564 organonitrogen compound metabolic process
•                  GO:0006022 aminoglycan metabolic process
•                  GO:1901071 glucosamine-containing compound metabolic process
•                      GO:0006030 chitin metabolic process
•                          GO:0006037 cell wall chitin metabolic process
•                          GO:0006031 chitin biosynthetic process
•                          GO:0006032 chitin catabolic process
•                          GO:0006034 cuticle chitin metabolic process
•                          GO:0032882 regulation of chitin metabolic process

Parents of chitin metabolic process (GO:0006030)

subject	relation	object
chitin metabolic process	RO:0004007	chitin (CHEBI:17029)
chitin metabolic process	is_a	glucosamine-containing compound metabolic process (GO:1901071)
chitin metabolic process	is_a	aminoglycan metabolic process (GO:0006022)

Children of chitin metabolic process (GO:0006030)

subject	relation	object
chitin biosynthetic process (GO:0006031)	is_a	chitin metabolic process
cell wall chitin metabolic process (GO:0006037)	is_a	chitin metabolic process
chitin catabolic process (GO:0006032)	is_a	chitin metabolic process
cuticle chitin metabolic process (GO:0006034)	is_a	chitin metabolic process
regulation of chitin metabolic process (GO:0032882)	RO:0002211	chitin metabolic process