go_id,ontology,go_term,term_definition,evidence GO:0001503,BP,ossification,"The formation of bone or of a bony substance, or the conversion of fibrous tissue or of cartilage into bone or a bony substance.",IEA GO:0001558,BP,"regulation of cell growth","Any process that modulates the frequency, rate, extent or direction of cell growth.",NAS GO:0005520,MF,"insulin-like growth factor binding","Interacting selectively and non-covalently with an insulin-like growth factor, any member of a group of polypeptides that are structurally homologous to insulin and share many of its biological activities, but are immunologically distinct from it.",IEA GO:0005614,CC,"interstitial matrix","A type of extracellular matrix found in interstitial connective tissue, characterized by the presence of fibronectins, proteoglycans, and types I, III, V, VI, VII and XII collagens.",IEA GO:0007275,BP,"multicellular organism development","The biological process whose specific outcome is the progression of a multicellular organism over time from an initial condition (e.g. a zygote or a young adult) to a later condition (e.g. a multicellular animal or an aged adult).",IEA GO:0030154,BP,"cell differentiation","The process in which relatively unspecialized cells, e.g. embryonic or regenerative cells, acquire specialized structural and/or functional features that characterize the cells, tissues, or organs of the mature organism or some other relatively stable phase of the organism's life history. Differentiation includes the processes involved in commitment of a cell to a specific fate and its subsequent development to the mature state.",IEA GO:0030198,BP,"extracellular matrix organization","A process that is carried out at the cellular level which results in the assembly, arrangement of constituent parts, or disassembly of an extracellular matrix.",IEA