AmiGO 2: Term Details for "fertilization" (GO:0009566)

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Term Information

Accession: GO:0009566
Name: fertilization
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: syngamy
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The union of gametes of opposite sexes during the process of sexual reproduction to form a zygote. It involves the fusion of the gametic nuclei (karyogamy) and cytoplasm (plasmogamy). Source: GOC:tb, ISBN:0198506732
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0009566 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to fertilization (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to fertilization (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for fertilization (excluding "regulates").

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GO:0008150 biological_process
GO:0022414 reproductive process
GO:0019953 sexual reproduction
GO:0009566 fertilization
GO:0009567 double fertilization forming a zygote and endosperm
GO:0009677 double fertilization forming two zygotes
CL:0000586 germ cell
GO:0060467 negative regulation of fertilization
GO:1905516 positive regulation of fertilization
GO:0080154 regulation of fertilization
GO:0007338 single fertilization

Parents of fertilization (GO:0009566)

subject	relation	object
fertilization	RO:0002297	zygote (CL:0010017)
fertilization	is_a	reproductive process (GO:0022414)
fertilization	RO:0002162	cellular organisms (NCBITaxon:131567)
fertilization	BFO:0000050	sexual reproduction (GO:0019953)
fertilization	RO:0012008	germ cell nucleus (GO:0043073)

Children of fertilization (GO:0009566)

subject	relation	object
single fertilization (GO:0007338)	is_a	fertilization
double fertilization forming two zygotes (GO:0009677)	is_a	fertilization
positive regulation of fertilization (GO:1905516)	RO:0002213	fertilization
germ cell (CL:0000586)	RO:0002216	fertilization
double fertilization forming a zygote and endosperm (GO:0009567)	is_a	fertilization
regulation of fertilization (GO:0080154)	RO:0002211	fertilization
negative regulation of fertilization (GO:0060467)	RO:0002212	fertilization

Wikipedia: Fertilisation