pattern specification process

id: GO:0007389
name: pattern specification process
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: Any developmental process that results in the creation of defined areas or spaces within an organism to which cells respond and eventually are instructed to differentiate.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0001569patterning of blood vessels
GO:0003002regionalization
GO:0007379segment specification
GO:0009798axis specification
GO:0009799specification of symmetry
GO:0009880embryonic pattern specification
GO:0016318ommatidial rotation
GO:0035161imaginal disc lineage restriction
GO:0035287head segmentation
GO:0045468regulation of R8 cell spacing in compound eye
GO:0060432lung pattern specification process
GO:0060854patterning of lymph vessels
GO:0060896neural plate pattern specification
GO:0065001specification of axis polarity
GO:0072048renal system pattern specification
GO:0080006internode patterning

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0032502developmental process