Planteome: Term Details for "nitrogen fixation" (GO:0009399)

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Term Information

Accession: GO:0009399
Name: nitrogen fixation
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: None
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The process in which nitrogen is taken from its relatively inert molecular form (N2) in the atmosphere and converted into nitrogen compounds useful for other chemical processes, such as ammonia, nitrate and nitrogen dioxide. Source: Wikipedia:Nitrogen_fixation
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0009399 at QuickGO
Subset: None
Related: Link to all annotated objects annotated to nitrogen fixation.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to nitrogen fixation.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for nitrogen fixation.
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BFO:0000001 entity
BFO:0000003 occurrent
BFO:0000015 process
GO:0008150 biological_process
GO:0008152 metabolic process
GO:0006807 nitrogen compound metabolic process
GO:0071941 nitrogen cycle metabolic process
GO:0009399 nitrogen fixation

Parents of nitrogen fixation (GO:0009399)

subject	relation	object
nitrogen fixation	is_a	nitrogen cycle metabolic process (GO:0071941)

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MetaCyc: N2FIX-PWY
Wikipedia: Nitrogen_fixation