CZ:Biology Workgroup

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Biology workgroup tasks

Suggestions for this page as recommended by Larry Sanger Still to do: (i) a welcome message aimed at new editors in your area, and perhaps (ii) a link to a version of Citizendium_Pilot:Recruitment_Letter adapted for your discipline. And whatever else seems helpful! The most up to date version of the recruitment letter can been seen here.

How you can help

Launch workgroup tagging of articles Any article related to the Biology Workgroup should be placed in the category [[Category:Biology Workgroup]]". This means that we think the biology workgroup will be one of the main groups to manage this article. Note, the tag is *not* "[[Category:Biology]]"; that's because we're attaching the article to its *management*. Note: only articles with the biology workgroup category tag will been seen in the recent changes for all biology articles (see header above). Launch area managemnet: deferred We should probably defer selection of discipline workgroup management until after more people in each area have arrived, and we have had a chance to finalize how this management will be selected.

Proposed subgroups

The organisation we inherited from Wikipedia is subdivided into disciplines within biology, however, we do not have to follow such a format. We can move forward with subgroups that seem more natural, and I imagine some subgroups will include several related disciplines. We can discuss this more on the subgroups thread, in the biology forum, as we reach a critical mass of editors and authors. Relevant lists and headers from Wikipedia are shown at the bottom of this section. Also, the list of high priority articles in the next section are currently categorized by discipline. List of biology disciplines Template:Biology-footer

High priority articles

This list of articles is not complete but it can be used as a starting point for writing new articles or focus our efforts towards getting more articles approved. Articles in bold are regarded as a higher priority. Those struck through are considered as low priority.

Biography

1. Charles Darwin
2. Carolus Linnaeus -
3. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
4. Gregor Mendel
5. Barbara_McClintock - approved

Anatomy

1. Circulatory system
   1. Blood
   2. Heart
2. Endocrine system
3. Gastrointestinal tract
   1. Large intestine
   2. Small intestine
   3. Liver
4. Integumentary system
   1. Breast
   2. Skin
5. Nervous system
   1. Brain
   2. Spinal Cord
   3. Peripheral Nervous System
6. Sensory system
   1. Auditory system
      1. Ear
   2. Gustatory system
   3. Olfactory system
      1. Nose
   4. Somatosensory system
   5. Visual system
      1. Eye
7. Reproductive system
   1. Penis
   2. Vagina
8. Respiratory system
   1. Lung
9. Skeleton

Biochemistry

1. Macromolecules
   1. Nucleic acid
      1. DNA
      2. RNA
   2. Protein
      1. Enzyme
      2. Amino acid
      3. Peptide
   3. Carbohydrate
   4. Lipid
2. Metabolism - approved
   1. Glycolysis
      1. NAD
   2. Krebs cycle
      1. FAD
   3. Electron transport chain
   4. Photosynthesis
   5. Intermediary metabolism

Botany

1. Fungus
   1. Yeast
2. Plant
   1. Angiosperm
      1. Eudicotyledon
         1. Arabidopsis thaliana
         2. Tobacco
         3. Oak
      2. Monocotyledon
         1. Maize
         2. Rice
         3. Barley
   2. Bryophyte
      1. Liverwort
      2. Moss
   3. Fern
   4. Gymnosperm
3. Plant anatomy
   1. Leaf
   2. Flower
      1. Petal
   3. Root
   4. Stem
   5. Plant tissues
      1. parenchyma
      2. collenchyma
      3. sclerenchyma
      4. epidermis
         1. guard cell
         2. stomate (plural: stomata)
         3. trichome
         4. root hair
      5. xylem article could merge together the subcategories
         1. vessel element
         2. tracheid
      6. phloem article could merge together the subcategories
         1. sieve tube cell
         2. companion cell
4. Plant physiology
   1. Dehiscence
   2. Flower induction
   3. Nitrogen assimilation
   4. Plant senescence
   5. Wilting
      1. Plasmolysis
   6. Plant hormones
      1. Abscisic acid
      2. Auxin
      3. Brassinosteroid
      4. Cytokinin
      5. Ethylene
      6. Gibberellin
5. Plant behavior
   1. Gravitropism
   2. Heliotropism
   3. Phototropism
   4. Thigmotropism

Cell biology

1. Cell division
2. Cell nucleus
3. Cell wall
4. Cell membrane
5. Cytoplasm
6. Cytoskeleton
7. Flagellum
8. Organelles
   1. Chloroplast
   2. Mitochondrion
   3. Endoplasmic reticulum
   4. Golgi apparatus
   5. Vacuole
   6. Ribosome

Developmental biology

1. Cellular differentiation
2. Stem Cells
3. Cancer
4. Descriptive embryology

Ecology

1. Endangered species
2. Species

Evolutionary biology

1. Evidence of evolution
2. Processes of evolution:
   1. adaptation
   2. macroevolution
   3. microevolution
   4. natural selection
   5. speciation

Genetics

1. Classical genetics
   1. Mendelian inheritance
   2. mutation
2. Clinical genetics
   1. Genetic counseling
3. Ecological genetics
4. Molecular genetics
5. Population genetics
   1. selection
   2. genetic drift
   3. gene flow
6. Quantitative genetics

Microbiology

1. Archaea
2. Bacteria

Molecular biology

1. Polymerase chain reaction
2. Gel electrophoresis
3. Southern blot
4. Northern blot
5. Restriction enzyme
6. Western blot

Physiology

1. Digestion
2. Excretion
3. Biological reproduction
   1. Pregnancy
   2. Asexual reproduction
   3. Sexual reproduction
4. Respiration (physiology)

Taxonomy

1. Cladistics
2. Systematics
3. Tree of life

Virology

1. Bacteriophage
2. DNA virus
3. RNA virus
4. Viral diseases
   1. AIDS
   2. SARS
   3. Chicken Pox & Shingles (Varicella)

Zoology

1. Protist
2. Animal
   1. Arthropod
      1. Insect
         1. Ant
         2. Bee
         3. Beetle
         4. Butterfly
      2. Arachnid
   2. Chordate
      1. Amphibian
         1. Frog
      2. Fish
         1. Shark
      3. Mammal
         1. Ape
            1. Human
         2. Bat
         3. Bear
         4. Camel
         5. Cat
         6. Cattle
         7. The Dog Family
            1. Wolves
            2. Grey Wolf
         8. Dolphin
         9. Elephant
            1. Mammoth
         10. Horse
         11. Sheep
         12. Lion
         13. Pig
         14. Whale
      4. Reptile
         1. Dinosaur
            1. Bird
               1. Eagle
               2. Duck
               3. Chicken
               4. Owl
               5. Dove
               6. Turkey
               7. Ostrich
               8. Penguin
         2. Snake

Core article

The list below is adapted from the high priority articles above and the small list that has already started at CZ:Core_Articles#Biology. These are articles that we deem vital to get the biology section going. Please add and delete from this list. We are rstricted to 198 articles that we think are needed now.

For a more comprehensive list search for the red links in the CZ:Biology_Workgroup/list or CZ:Biology_Workgroup/concepts.

Just to clarify, i combined the list the concepts and the core article we already had. I then edited for duplicates and removed items that did not seem to fit the core concept. We now have 300 articles. Feel free to add topics that are missing. Also feel free to group articles into topic related concepts, although this alphabetical list is probably OK for those wanting to see what is missing from CZ. Chris Day (talk) 16:33, 27 September 2007 (CDT)

Biology related abiogenesis acetyl CoA acid acquired characteristics ACTH actin stub action potential stub action spectrum activation energy active site active transport adaptive radiation ADH aerobic Alfred Russel Wallace algae allele anaerobic respiration Ant antibiotic resistance antibody Antoni van Leeuwenhoek apoptosis Arabidopsis thaliana archaebacteria Asexual reproduction ATP synthase autosome Biochemistry biological emergence biological membrane blastula Botany Bryophyte Calvin cycle Carbohydrate carbon cycle carnivore Carolus Linnaeus carotenoid Cell biology cell division Cell nucleus Cell wall Cellular differentiation cellulose centromere chemautotrophic chemiosmosis Chi square test chiasma chitin chlorophyll Chloroplast chromatid chromatin chromosome circadian rhythm Cladistics Classical genetics codon collagen conformation convergent evolution Cytoplasm cytosol Developmental biology diffusion Digestion dimer diploid DNA replication DNA virus double helix Drosophila melanogaster ecological niche egg (biology) Electron transport chain electrophoresis embryo Endoplasmic reticulum endosymbiosis enhancer enzyme kinetics Ernst Haeckel eubacteria evolutionary tree Excretion exon Eye facilitated diffusion FADH2 fat feedback inhibition Flagellum fluid mosaic model Francis Crick fundamental niche fungi gamete gene duplication gene pool gene genetic code genetic drift genetic recombination genome Genomics glucose glycoprotein Golgi apparatus gravitropism Gregor Mendel growth curve habitat (ecology) haploid herbivore heredity hermaphrodite Hershey-Chase experiment heterochromatin heterozygote hibernation homeobox homeostasis Homology (biology) homozygote household gene Human Genome Project human hybrid insectivores intestine intron invasive species ion channel James Watson Jean-Baptiste Lamarck knock-out mouse Konrad Lorenz Lac repressor leaf liver locus (genetics) Louis Pasteur Lynn Margulis Lyon hypothesis Macroevolution mass extinction mass spectrometry Max Delbrück meiosis Mendelian inheritance metaphase Michaelis-Menten kinetics Microarray Microevolution microsatellite microtubules Mitochondrion mitosis Molecular biology molecular clock monoclonal antibody monophyletic Muller's ratchet mutagen myosin neuron neurospora crassa Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide nitrogen cycle Non-coding RNA non-competitive inhibition Nucleic acid nucleosome nucleotide Okazaki fragment oncogene operon osmosis oxidative phosphorylation parasitism Peptide peroxisome phagocytosis phenotype phloem phospholipid bilayer phospholipid phosphorylation Photosynthesis phylogeny pigment Plant physiology Plant tissues plant plasmid plasmolysis plastid Polymerase chain reaction polypeptide polysaccharide population predation Pregnancy primary structure promoter protein biosynthesis protein folding proteolysis proteomics pseudopod punctuated equilibrium Punnett square purine pyrimidine Quantitative trait loci quaternary structure receptor (biochemistry) recombination Redox Reproduction Restriction enzyme retrovirus Ribosome RNA virus root secondary structure seed senescence sequencing Sexual reproduction signal transduction sister chromatid Skeleton Skin Southern blot speciation sperm Splicing (genetics) starch stoma substrate (biochemistry) symbiosis Systematics taxis Taxonomy telomere tertiary structure testes thermocline thermoregulation Thomas Hunt Morgan thylakoid Trait (biological) transcription (genetics) transcription factor Transformation (genetics) tropism twin Vacuole vesicle (biology) Visual perception vitamin Wobble base pair X chromosome xanthophyll xylem Y chromosome Zoology zygote

Health Sciences related: Move article red links to this column from first column if they are more appropriate for health sciences. Or, move back to the first column if these article names are not suitable for health sciences. [I find it difficult to define criteria for "more appropriate for health sciences". If biologists study and research a topic, it seems appropriate for consideration as a biology core topic. Seven of the first ten in this second column (acid-base physiology, arterial system, auditory system, blood, bone, capillary, endocrine system) do not seem more appropriate for health sciences than for biology. Acid-base disorders, arteriosclerosis, hearing deficits, blood dyscrasias, osteoporosis, sickle cell crisis, and endocrinopathies -- yes. Just an opinion. Let's not give away the store. --Anthony.Sebastian (Talk) 18:26, 27 September 2007 (CDT)] Acid-base physiology albinism Arterial system Auditory system Blood Bone capillary diabetes Down syndrome Endocrine system gene therapy genetic fingerprint Heart immune system karyotype Klinefelter syndrome lung malaria muscle nondisjunction organ (anatomy) Reproductive system Respiration (physiology) tumor Turner syndrome vaccine Viral diseases

Already have these: Move these to the first column if they need a lot of work.  acetylcholine  adaptation  Adenosine triphosphate  Alexander Fleming  amino acid  anabolism  Anatomy  animal  bacteria  Bioinformatics  biotechnology  cancer  catabolism  cell (biology)  Cellular respiration  Charles Darwin  circulatory system  citric acid cycle  cloning  cytoskeleton  dihybrid cross  DNA E. coli  Ecology  endosymbiotic theory  enzyme  epigenetics  eukaryote  Evolution  fermentation (biochemistry)  flower  Genetics  genotype  glycogen  histone  hormone  insect  insulin  kidney  life  Lipid macromolecule  marine biology  microbiology  microfilament  mutation  natural selection  nervous system  neurotransmitter  organelle  organism  Physiology plasma membrane  pollination  prion  prokaryote  Protein  protist  RNA species  stem cell  synapse  systems biology  transposon virus  wood x-ray diffraction

Bear in mind the Health Sciences Workgroup has 198, too, and there must not be overlap. --Larry Sanger 12:02, 27 September 2007 (CDT)

Tree-of-life subgroup

A major part of the articles in the biology workgroup can be categorized under the concept of Tree of Life. All article about a species, genus or any other taxonomic level are part of this subgroup.

Naming convention

To be determined

Taxoboxes

Taxoboxes facilitate the navigation through the Tree-of-Life and each taxon is required to have one using the Template:Taxobox.