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Category:GO:0007608 ! sensory perception of smell
name: sensory perception of smell
namespace: biological_process
def: "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." [GOC:ai]
synonym: "olfaction" EXACT []
synonym: "scent perception" EXACT []
synonym: "sense of smell" EXACT []
synonym: "smell perception" EXACT []
xref: Wikipedia:Olfaction
is_a: GO:0007606 ! sensory perception of chemical stimulus
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<GOterm>GO:0007608</GOterm>
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