response to hypoxia

id: GO:0001666
name: response to hypoxia
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: 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 a stimulus indicating lowered oxygen tension. Hypoxia, defined as a decline in O2 levels below normoxic levels of 20.8 - 20.95%, results in metabolic adaptation at both the cellular and organismal level.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0070483detection of hypoxia
GO:0071456cellular response to hypoxia

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0006950response to stress
GO:0070482response to oxygen levels