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Category:GO:0006308 ! DNA catabolic process
name: DNA catabolic process
namespace: biological_process
def: "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." [GOC:go_curators, ISBN:0198506732]
synonym: "DNA breakdown" EXACT []
synonym: "DNA catabolism" EXACT []
synonym: "DNA degradation" EXACT []
is_a: GO:0006259 ! DNA metabolic process
is_a: GO:0141188 ! nucleic acid catabolic process
relationship: has_part: GO:0004536 ! DNA nuclease activity
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<GOterm>GO:0006308</GOterm>
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