Any process that results in a change in state or activity of a cell or an organism (in terms of movement, secretion, enzyme production, gene expression, etc.) as a result of an alkane stimulus. [ GOC:mengo_curators http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23826995 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22958739 http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go/references/0000071 GOC:TermGenie ]
This is just here as a test because I lose it