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. [ GOC:go_curators GOC:isa_complete https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0521436125 ]

This is just here as a test because I lose it

Term information

Subsets

goslim_drosophila

hasOBONamespace

biological_process

has related synonym

pattern biosynthesis

pattern formation

id

GO:0007389