formaldehyde biosynthetic process

id: GO:0046293
name: formaldehyde biosynthetic process
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of formaldehyde (methanal, H2C=O), the simplest aldehyde.

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0044283small molecule biosynthetic process
GO:0046184aldehyde biosynthetic process
GO:0046292formaldehyde metabolic process