CZ:Biology Workgroup/Biology Week

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For planning and administration of Biology Week, go here.

Welcome to Biology Week!

The first Biology Week took place here from Sep 22-28, 2008.

We are planning a big "online convention" of Biologists here on the Citizendium. Would you like to see more work done on articles about  Biology on Citizendium? Then here is your chance to make a difference.

Background information for newcomers

• A note from the Biology Week Coordinators

How do I register to participate in Biology Week

• Request a Citizendium account
  • Register as a Biology Author.
  • If you qualify for expertise in an area of biology, please also register as a Biology Editor.
• It takes only a few minutes at most to fill out the form
• Within hours, 24 at most, you will receive login information

In case of problems with registration, please contact the constables (who handle technical matters here at Citizendium) via an email to constables@citizendium.org.

What exactly can you contribute to Biology Week?

In principle, you have two ways to contribute

1. by improving existing articles listed as biological, especially the Core and High Priority articles or
2. by starting new articles fitting in there.

Lecturers and other instructors have a third option - assigning Citizendium articles as coursework via our Eduzendium initiative.

How to improve existing biology articles?

You can improve

1. the content, phrasing, structure or illustration of an article
2. the content phrasing or structure of an article's subpages (e.g. Related Articles, Bibliography, External Links, Gallery, Video, or Definitions).

If an article has already been approved, improvements (subject to re-approval) are still encouraged; for the editable version of the article, click on the "draft" tab, which you can see for example at the top of Life.

How to start new biology articles at Citizendium?

• If you are new to Citizendium, please take a look here and start writing. During Biology Week, many people familiar with formatting will be around to help you.
• If you are new to Biology, you can invite biologists to help you. To this end, please announce your article in the appropriate section below.

In case of any queries or problems contact

Biology Week Coordinators: Supten Sarbadhikari and Daniel Mietchen

Biology Workgroup Recent Changes

To monitor biology articles most recently edited, check out the Biology Workgroup's recent changes.

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category:Biology_tag

Biology clusters edited during Biology Week

Please use the format {{rpl|Your Article's name}}.

• Alcmaeon: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Alcmaeon (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
•  Ape: Tail-less primates in Africa and Eurasia, e.g. humans, orang-utans and chimpanzees. ^[e]
•  Apple (fruit): A tree fruit of the plant Malus pumila, commonly used in cooking, or eaten raw. ^[e]
•  Arabidopsis thaliana (Thale Cress): A small flowering plant widely used by plant biologists as a model organism for basic research. It is a dicotyledonous species and a member of the Brassicaceae or mustard family. ^[e]
•  Astrocyte: A non-neural cell type in the brain and spinal cord of vertebrates. ^[e]
•  Biology: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. ^[e]
•  Biophysics: The study of forces and energies in biological systems. ^[e]
•  Brain development: The build-up of the brain from ectodermal cells to a complex structure of neurons, glia and blood vessels. ^[e]
•  Brain evolution: The process by which the central nervous system changed over many generations. ^[e]
•  Brain plasticity and music: The adaptations and changes in the brain during learning music formally. ^[e]
•  Breast cancer: Cancer of the glandular breast tissue. ^[e]
•  Cancer: A generic term for a large group of diseases that can affect any part of the body; one defining feature is the rapid creation of abnormal cells that grow beyond their usual boundaries, and which can then invade adjoining parts of the body and spread to other organs. ^[e]
•  Carbonyl group: A chemical group containing a carbon atom double bonded to an oxygen atom. ^[e]
•  Cell cycle: Is the progression of events within a eukaryotic cell between cell divisions. ^[e]
•  Cell division: The process by which a parent cell divides into two or more daughter cells. ^[e]
•  Cerebral cortex: External tissue layer within the vertebrate brain, ensheathed by the pia mater; home to the nerve cell bodies; important in learning and dementia. ^[e]
•  Cholinergic antagonist: The medications "that bind to but do not activate cholinergic receptors, thereby blocking the actions of acetylcholine or cholinergic agonists." ^[e]
•  Coccidioides posadasii: The fungus that is the causative agent of the disease coccidioidomycosis. ^[e]
•  Cortical thickness: The combined thickness of the cerebral cortex layers. ^[e]
•  Coxiella burnetii: The rickettsia that causes Q fever. ^[e]
•  Dinosaurs: widely distributed and diverse group of generally large reptiles that lived from approximately 215 to 65 million years ago. ^[e]
•  Domestication: The process of habituating wild animals or plants to live in association with humans, thereby providing us with food, livestock and pets. ^[e]
•  Ear: The organ that detects sound. ^[e]
•  Electroencephalography: A technique that records brain electrical activity non-invasively. ^[e]
•  Embryo: An organism in its earliest phase of development. ^[e]
•  Fruit: The parts of a plant containing its seeds, usually held in or around a pulpy covering. ^[e]
•  Glycolysis: A biochemical pathway by which a molecule of glucose is oxidized to two molecules of pyruvate. ^[e]
•  Growth hormone: A peptide hormone that is made in and secreted from the somatotroph cells of the anterior pituitary gland, and which is essential for regulating post-natal growth in all mammals. ^[e]
•  Gyrification: The folding process during brain development, or the extent of folding. ^[e]
•  MEDLINE: The U.S. National Library of Medicine's® (NLM) premier bibliographic database that contains over 16 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. ^[e]
•  Metabolism: The modification of chemical substances by living organisms. ^[e]
•  Mitosis: The process of eukaryotic cell division. ^[e]
•  Model organism: Species often used in research as models for the study of biological processes. ^[e]
•  Moss: Add brief definition or description
•  Music perception: Add brief definition or description
•  N-acetylaspartate: Add brief definition or description
•  Nervous system: Add brief definition or description
•  Neurochemistry: Add brief definition or description
•  Neuroimaging: Add brief definition or description
•  Neurotransmitter: Add brief definition or description
•  Obesity: Add brief definition or description
•  Olfactory bulb: Add brief definition or description
•  Organism: Add brief definition or description
•  Oxytocin: Add brief definition or description
•  Patch clamp: Add brief definition or description
•  Phenylketonuria: Add brief definition or description
•  Phycology: Add brief definition or description
•  Social Darwinism: Add brief definition or description
•  Species: Add brief definition or description
•  Symbiosis: Add brief definition or description
• Tree: Add brief definition or description

Biology clusters started during Biology Week

Please use the format {{rpl|Your Article's name}}.

•  Arabidopsis thaliana (Thale Cress): A small flowering plant widely used by plant biologists as a model organism for basic research. It is a dicotyledonous species and a member of the Brassicaceae or mustard family. ^[e]
•  Cell division: The process by which a parent cell divides into two or more daughter cells. ^[e]
•  Electroencephalography: A technique that records brain electrical activity non-invasively. ^[e]
•  Embryo: An organism in its earliest phase of development. ^[e]
•  Flight (biology): Add brief definition or description
•  Model organism: Species often used in research as models for the study of biological processes. ^[e]
•  N-acetylaspartate: Add brief definition or description
•  Neurochemistry: Add brief definition or description
•  Olfactory bulb: Add brief definition or description
•  Patch clamp: Add brief definition or description
•  Phenylketonuria: Add brief definition or description

Tools

See also Category:Technical_Help

• To wikify scientific references (via Google Scholar). Sample search for "biology next mathematics".
• To find related articles (in Pubmed). Sample search (based on the first paragraph of Life). The site is slow, though, and thus perhaps only of good use if you are looking for references outside your primary field of expertise.
• To find Open Access biomedical images. Sample search for "amygdala"
• Top 10 Ways to Search Wikipedia - much of this is useful here, too
• Biological definitions at the Biology-Online dictionary
• Universal reference formatter
• Zotero (bibliographic management)
• Webcitation.org - a tool that archives webpages so that they can be cited in the form they had when visited