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Accession
GO:0007608
Name
sensory perception of smell
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
olfaction, scent perception, sense of smell, smell perception
Alternate IDs
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Definition
The series of events required for an organism to receive an olfactory stimulus, convert it to a molecular signal, and recognize and characterize the signal. Olfaction involves the detection of chemical composition of an organism's ambient medium by chemoreceptors. This is a neurological process. Source: GOC:ai
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Chem. react.
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Parents of sensory perception of smell (GO:0007608)
subject[Reorder by subject] relation[Reorder by relation] object[Reorder by object]
sensory perception of smell [is_a relation] is_a  sensory perception of chemical stimulus (GO:0007606)
Children of sensory perception of smell (GO:0007608)
subject[Reorder by subject] relation[Reorder by relation] object[Reorder by object]
olfactory bulb (UBERON:0002264) [RO:0002215 relation] RO:0002215  sensory perception of smell
nose (UBERON:0000004) [RO:0002216 relation] RO:0002216  sensory perception of smell
olfactory system (UBERON:0005725) [RO:0002215 relation] RO:0002215  sensory perception of smell
olfactory granule cell (CL:0000626) [RO:0002428 relation] RO:0002428  sensory perception of smell
detection of chemical stimulus involved in sensory perception of smell (GO:0050911) [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  sensory perception of smell
Wikipedia
Olfaction