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.  Habitat
2.  Population
3.  Metapopulation
4.  Community
5.  Ecosystem
6.  Landscape
7.  Biome
8. Species
9.  Biodiversity
10.  Biogeography
    1.  Island Biogeography
11. Biological dispersal
12. Succession
13.  Competition
14. Predation
15. Parasitism
16.  Symbiosis
17. Mutualism
18.  Food web
19. Invasive species
20. Tropical rain forest
21. Deciduous forest
22. Savanna
23. Desert
24.  Coral reef

 Evolutionary biology

1.  Evolution
   1. Evidence of evolution
   2.  macroevolution
   3. microevolution
2.  Natural selection
3.  Gene flow
4.  Adaptation
5. Speciation
6. EvoDevo

 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 restricted 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 abiogenesis acetyl CoA  acid activation energy aerobic autotroph  Biochemistry biological emergence blastula  Botany  carotenoid  carnivore Cell biology Cellular differentiation Chi square test chitin Cladistics Classical genetics conformation decomposer Developmental biology diffusion dimer  DNA sequencing epistasis Ethology Excretion FADH2 gene pool Genomics  glucose Hershey-Chase experiment housekeeping gene hybrid knock-out mouse limnology  mass extinction mass spectrometry Molecular biology niche Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide non-competitive inhibition nucleosome peroxisome phospholipid pigment Plant physiology Plant tissues plastid primary structure proteomics punctuated equilibrium purine pyrimidine quaternary structure secondary structure  Southern blot  Systematics taxis  Taxonomy tertiary structure twin xanthophyll  Zoology

Biographies We may already have some of these under different spellings or without the middle name.  Alfred Russel Wallace Ernst Haeckel  Francis Crick Melvin Calvin Hans Krebs Fred Sanger Linus Pauling James Watson Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Konrad Lorenz Max Delbrück Oswald T. Avery (DNA as the genetic material) Comte de Buffon Organisms  algae  Ant Arabidopsis thaliana archaebacteria Bryophyte DNA virus eubacteria  Escherichia coli fungi  human neurospora crassa plant retrovirus 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

1. Each species or higher taxon, except exceptions below, are to be written under their official scientific name. If there is a single established common name, that name is included in the title between parenthesis. (e.g. "Barnardius zonarius (Australian Ringneck)").
2. Groups that are included in the "Latin name (Common name)" system are birds (offcial names) and mammals (the single authoritative source for mammal names). Other groups will be added if a single authoritative source has been established.
3. If a single authoritative common name is available for a species (see point above), that name is to be used in the article and overrules English dialect varieties.
4. Subspecies and specific populations are included in the article of the species, unless they warrant a full article by themselves due to the amount of subspecies specific information.
5. All common names are created as redirects to the main article. All scientific synonyms are created as redirects to the main article. In case of the "Latin name (Common name)" scheme, the the main scientific name is also created as a redirect.
6. Exceptions. The following domesticated species are created under their common name, most of the time using "Domesticated " as a prefix:
   1. Human (Homo sapiens sapiens)
   2. Domesticated horse (Equus ferus caballus)
   3. Domesticated cat (Felis silvestris catus)
   4. Domesticated dog (Canis lupus familiaris)
   5. To be completed.

Taxoboxes

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