AmiGO 2: Term Details for "macronucleus" (GO:0031039)

Accession: GO:0031039
Name: macronucleus
Ontology: cellular_component
Synonyms: None
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: A membrane-bounded organelle of ciliated protozoan cells that contains polyploid copies of a portion of the cell's complete genome. Transcription of genes occurs in macronuclei. Some ciliate species may contain multiple macronuclei per cell. Source: GOC:ns
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0031039 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to macronucleus (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to macronucleus (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for macronucleus (excluding "regulates").

Include "regulates"
For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
macronucleus	is_a	nucleus (GO:0005634)
macronucleus	RO:0002160	Ciliophora (NCBITaxon:5878)

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