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 management: 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
2.  Cell division
3.  Cell nucleus
4. Cell wall
5.  Cell membrane
6. Cytoplasm
7.  Cytoskeleton
8. Flagellum
9. 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.  Biodiversity
3. Species
4.  Coral reef (please consider this - also in Earth Science list --Nereo Preto 07:54, 28 September 2007 (CDT))
   1. Bleaching

 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

Neuroscience

1.  Brain
2. Intelligence
3.  Neuron

 Physiology

1. Digestion
2. Excretion
3. Biological reproduction
4.  Hormone
   1.  Pregnancy
   2.  Asexual reproduction
   3. Sexual reproduction
5. 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)

Lower priority

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1. abiogenesis
2. acetyl CoA
3.  acid
4. activation energy
5. aerobic
6.  Biochemistry
7. biological emergence
8. blastula
9.  Botany
10.  carotenoid
11. Cell biology
12. Cellular differentiation
13. Chi square test
14. chitin
15. Cladistics
16. Classical genetics
17. conformation
18. Developmental biology
19. diffusion
20. dimer
21.  DNA sequencing
22. Excretion
23. FADH2
24. gene pool
25. Genomics
26.  glucose
27. Hershey-Chase experiment
28. housekeeping gene
29. hybrid
30. knock-out mouse
31.  mass extinction
32. mass spectrometry
33. Molecular biology
34. Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide
35. non-competitive inhibition
36. nucleosome
37. peroxisome
38. phospholipid
39. pigment
40. Plant physiology
41. Plant tissues
42. plastid
43. primary structure
44. proteomics
45. punctuated equilibrium
46. purine
47. pyrimidine
48. quaternary structure
49. secondary structure
50.  Southern blot
51.  Systematics
52. taxis
53.  Taxonomy
54. tertiary structure
55. twin
56. xanthophyll
57.  Zoology

Biographies We may already have some of these under different spellings or without the middle name.

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1.  Alfred Russel Wallace
2. Ernst Haeckel
3.  Francis Crick
4. Melvin Calvin
5. Hans Krebs
6. Fred Sanger
7. Linus Pauling
8. James Watson
9. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
10. Konrad Lorenz
11. Max Delbrück

Organisms

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1.  algae
2.  Ant
3. Arabidopsis thaliana
4. archaebacteria
5. Bryophyte
6. DNA virus
7. eubacteria
8.  Escherichia coli
9. fungi
10.  human
11. neurospora crassa
12. plant
13. retrovirus
14. RNA virus

Already have these: Move these to the first column if they need a lot of work.  acetylcholine  Alexander Fleming  amino acid  anabolism  Anatomy  animal  Antonie_van_Leeuwenhoek  bacteria  Bioinformatics  biotechnology  cancer  catabolism  cell (biology)  Cellular respiration  Charles Darwin  circulatory system  citric acid cycle  cloning  cytoskeleton  dihybrid cross  DNA  Ecology  endosymbiotic theory  enzyme  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  organism  Physiology plasma membrane  pollination  prion  Protein species  stem cell  synapse  systems biology  transposon  Vasopressin  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)

Also note that the red links on the "already have" list are articles that are marked as externally sourced. These may be included at CZ:Core Articles to be rewritten.--Joe Quick (Talk) 18:53, 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.