vitamin catabolic process

id: GO:0009111
name: vitamin catabolic process
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of a vitamin, one of a number of unrelated organic substances that occur in many foods in small amounts and that are necessary in trace amounts for the normal metabolic functioning of the body.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0042363fat-soluble vitamin catabolic process
GO:0042365water-soluble vitamin catabolic process

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0006766vitamin metabolic process
GO:0044248cellular catabolic process
GO:0044282small molecule catabolic process