Growth and development

Tanya Berardini tberardi at acoma.Stanford.EDU
Fri Jun 10 13:01:53 PDT 2005


Does the 'cell proliferation' parentage have to exist for 'developmental
growth of a unicellular organism'?  It seems like this might not be
appropriate since division of a unicellular organism (implied by cell
proliferation) is really (asexual) reproduction, isn't it?

Tanya


> also
>
> [i]cellular physiological process ; GO:0050875
> ---[i]cell proliferation ; GO:0008283
> ------[p]developmental growth of a unicellular organism ; GO:new
> ------[p]non-developmental growth of a unicellular organism ; GO:new
>
>
> This additional parentage means that
>
> developmental growth of a unicellular organism ; GO:new
>
> is part_of both
>
> cell proliferation ; GO:0008283
>
> and
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> cell development ; GO:0048468
>
> and terms are not allowed to have to part_of parents.
> I don't see a way out of that right now.
>
> Does anybody have any thoughts on that?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jen
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