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The series of events involved in the perception of smell in which an olfactory chemical stimulus is received by a cell and converted into a molecular signal. 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. The series of events required for an organism to receive a sensory chemical stimulus, convert it to a molecular signal, and recognize and characterize the signal. This is a neurological process. The series of events required for an organism to receive a sensory stimulus, convert it to a molecular signal, and recognize and characterize the signal. This is a neurological process.

View Gene Ontology (GO) Term

GO TERM SUMMARY
Name: sensory perception of smell
Acc: GO:0007608
Aspect: Biological Process
Desc: 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.
Synonyms:
  • smell perception
  • scent perception
  • sense of smell
  • olfaction
Proteins in PDR annotated with:
   This term: 749 [Search]
   Term or descendants: 1963 [Search]


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INTERACTIVE GO GRAPH

GO:0007608 - sensory perception of smell (interactive image map)
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