FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
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Term DNA catabolic process ID (Ontology) GO:0006308 (Gene Ontology)
Definition The cellular DNA metabolic process resulting in the breakdown of DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid, one of the two main types of nucleic acid, consisting of a long unbranched macromolecule formed from one or two strands of linked deoxyribonucleotides, the 3'-phosphate group of each constituent deoxyribonucleotide being joined in 3',5'-phosphodiester linkage to the 5'-hydroxyl group of the deoxyribose moiety of the next one.[ ISBN:0198506732 ]
Also Known As "DNA breakdown" ; "DNA catabolism" ; "DNA degradation"
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Genes (FBgn)  GO_BIOLOGICAL_PROCESS       5
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 DNA catabolic process (all annotations which use CV term, excluding "NOT" statements)       5
     involved_in | DNA catabolic process       5
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macromolecule catabolic process
 |__nucleic acid catabolic process________________
nucleobase-containing compound catabolic process  |
 |__nucleic acid catabolic process________________|
nucleic acid metabolic process                    |
 |__DNA metabolic process_________________________|
 |__nucleic acid catabolic process________________|
                                                  DNA catabolic process  22 rec.
                                                   |__apoptotic DNA fragmentation 18 rec.
                                                   |   |__regulation of apoptotic DNA fragmentation(+)
                                                   |__mitochondrial DNA catabolic process 1 rec.
                                                   |   |__spermatid mitochondrial nucleoid elimination
                                                   |__regulation of DNA catabolic process
                                                       |__negative regulation of DNA catabolic process(+)
                                                       |__positive regulation of DNA catabolic process(+)
                                                       |__regulation of apoptotic DNA fragmentation(+)
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Is a DNA metabolic process
nucleic acid catabolic process
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  • "DNA breakdown" EXACT
    "DNA catabolism" EXACT
    "DNA degradation" EXACT
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