carotenoid metabolic process

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0016116

The chemical reactions and pathways involving carotenoids, tetraterpenoid compounds in which two units of 4 isoprenoid residues joined head-to-tail are themselves joined tail-to-tail. [ http://openisbn.com/search.php?q=0198547684&isbn=1/ ]

Synonyms: carotenoid metabolism

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has obo namespace

biological_process

GO:0016116

never in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_4932, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_4896

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Equivalent to:

metabolic process and has primary input or output some carotenoid

Subclass of:

tetraterpenoid metabolic process
not (in taxon some Schizosaccharomyces pombe)
in taxon some (not Saccharomyces cerevisiae)
in taxon some (not Schizosaccharomyces pombe)
has primary input or output some carotenoid
not (in taxon some Saccharomyces cerevisiae)