metabolic process
The chemical reactions and pathways, including anabolism and catabolism, by which living organisms transform chemical substances. Metabolic processes typically transform small molecules, but also include macromolecular processes such as DNA repair and replication, and protein synthesis and degradation. [ https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0198547684 ]
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metabolic process
- metabolism
goslim_chembl, goslim_pir, gosubset_prok, goslim_plant
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go.owl
Note that metabolic processes do not include single functions or processes such as protein-protein interactions, protein-nucleic acids, nor receptor-ligand interactions.
metabolic process resulting in cell growth, metabolism resulting in cell growth
biological_process
GO:0008152