L-ornithine biosynthetic process
The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of ornithine, an amino acid only rarely found in proteins, but which is important in living organisms as an intermediate in the reactions of the urea cycle and in arginine biosynthesis.
GO:0006591
ornithine metabolic process
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GO:0008652
amino acid biosynthetic process
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GO:0170043
non-proteinogenic amino acid biosynthetic process
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ornithine anabolism
exact
ornithine biosynthesis
exact
ornithine biosynthetic process
broad
ornithine formation
exact
ornithine synthesis
exact
SPBC725.14