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Behavior associated with the intake of food. The contraction and relaxation movements of the pharyngeal muscle that mediate feeding in nematodes. The specific actions or reactions of an organism in response to external or internal stimuli. Patterned activity of a whole organism in a manner dependent upon some combination of that organism's internal state and external conditions. The specific actions or reactions of an organism relating to the intake of food, any substance (usually solid) that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue. The specific actions of an organism that are triggered by the detection of dietary excess and result in a decreased intake of food.

View Gene Ontology (GO) Term

GO TERM SUMMARY
Name: eating behavior
Acc: GO:0042755
Aspect: Biological Process
Desc: The specific actions or reactions of an organism relating to the intake of food, any substance (usually solid) that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue.
Synonyms:
  • eating behaviour
Proteins in PDR annotated with:
   This term: 60 [Search]
   Term or descendants: 128 [Search]


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INTERACTIVE GO GRAPH

GO:0042755 - eating behavior (interactive image map)
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