response to external stimulus
Any process that results in a change in state or activity of a cell or an organism (in terms of movement, secretion, enzyme production, gene expression, etc.) as a result of an external stimulus. [ GOC:hb ]
Synonyms: response to environmental stimulus
Term info
gocheck_do_not_manually_annotate, goslim_drosophila, high_level_annotation_qc, gosubset_prok, goslim_plant
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biological_process
GO:0009605
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