Term Information

Accession
GO:0007608
Name
sensory perception of smell
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
olfaction, scent perception, sense of smell, smell perception
Alternate IDs
None
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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History
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Subset
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Parents of sensory perception of smell (GO:0007608)
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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]
detection of chemical stimulus involved in sensory perception of smell (GO:0050911) [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  sensory perception of smell
Wikipedia
Olfaction