AmiGO 2: Term Details for "glycerol biosynthetic process" (GO:0006114)

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Accession: GO:0006114
Name: glycerol biosynthetic process
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: glycerol anabolism, glycerol biosynthesis, glycerol formation, glycerol synthesis
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of glycerol, 1,2,3-propanetriol, a sweet, hygroscopic, viscous liquid, widely distributed in nature as a constituent of many lipids. Source: ISBN:0198506732, GOC:ai
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0006114 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to glycerol biosynthetic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to glycerol biosynthetic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for glycerol biosynthetic process (excluding "regulates").

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Parents of glycerol biosynthetic process (GO:0006114)

subject	relation	object
glycerol biosynthetic process	RO:0004008	glycerol (CHEBI:17754)
glycerol biosynthetic process	is_a	glycerol metabolic process (GO:0006071)
glycerol biosynthetic process	is_a	alditol biosynthetic process (GO:0019401)

Children of glycerol biosynthetic process (GO:0006114)

subject	relation	object
glycerol biosynthetic process from pyruvate (GO:0046327)	is_a	glycerol biosynthetic process

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