dedifferentiation

id: GO:0043696
name: dedifferentiation
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The process in which a specialized structure (cell, tissue or organ) loses structural or functional features that characterize it in the mature organism, or some other relatively stable phase of the organism's life history. Under certain conditions, these structures can revert back to the features of their ancestors.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0043697cell dedifferentiation

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0032502developmental process