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For planning and administration of Biology Week, go here.
Welcome to Biology Week!
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
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?
Hi! I'm an amoeba and I write Citizendium articles. So can you!
In principle, you have two ways to contribute
- by improving existing articles listed as biological, especially the Core and High Priority articles or
- 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
- the content, phrasing, structure or illustration of an article
- 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}}.
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Alcmaeon: A Greek natural philosopher interested in particular in medicine and physiology. [e]
- Ape: Tail-less primates in Africa and Eurasia, e.g. humans, orang-utans and chimpanzees. [e]
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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]
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Astrocyte: A non-neural cell type in the brain and spinal cord of vertebrates. [e]
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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 and glia. [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 central nervous system; 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 stages of development; the process of development during this period is called embryogenesis. [e]
- Fruit: The parts of a plant containing its seeds, usually held in or around a pulpy covering. [e]
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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: A non-vascular plant that only reproduces in water. [e]
- Music perception: The study of the neural mechanisms involved in people perceiving rhythms, melodies, harmonies and other musical features. [e]
- N-acetylaspartate: A putative reserve of acetyls for myelin synthesis in the brain. [e]
- Nervous system: The control unit of bodily functions in animals. [e]
- Neurochemistry: A subfield of biology that focuses on the chemical makeup of the brain with a particular emphasis on the metabolism of neuroactive compounds like neurotransmitters. [e]
- Neuroimaging: A group of techniques used to visualize structure and function of nervous systems, especially the vertebrate brain. [e]
- Neurotransmitter: A class of chemicals which relay, amplify or modulate electrical signals between a neuron and other cells in the nervous system. [e]
- Obesity: Excessive stores of body fat. [e]
- Olfactory bulb: A structure in the vertebrate brain which is responsible for processing information from odour receptors in the nose. [e]
- Organism: An individual living individual: a complex, adaptive physical system that acts a integrated unit that sustains metabolism and reproduces progeny that resemble it. [e]
- Oxytocin: A mammalian hormone that is secreted into the bloodstream from the posterior pituitary gland, and which is also released into the brain where it has effects on social behaviors. [e]
- Patch clamp: An electrophysiological recording technique that enables the investigation of single or multiple ion channel properties. [e]
- Phenylketonuria: A metabolic disease due to the reduction or loss of activity of the enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH). [e]
- Phycology: The academic discipline involving the study of algae. [e]
- Social Darwinism: Efforts to draw political conclusions from the theory of evolution by natural selection. [e]
- Species: A fundamental unit of biological classification - a set of individual organisms that produce fertile offspring. [e]
- Symbiosis: The interdependence of organisms belonging to different species. [e]
- Tree: A large, perennial, woody plant. [e]
The following edited biology articles during biology week: Tony, Chris, Christian, Daniel, David, Felipe, Gareth, Howard, Johannes, John, Joscha-Tapani, Larry, Pat, Pierre, Robert, Supten, Timothy, Tom and Yuval
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 stages of development; the process of development during this period is called embryogenesis. [e]
- Flight (biology): Aerial locomotion by living organisms. [e]
- Model organism: Species often used in research as models for the study of biological processes. [e]
- N-acetylaspartate: A putative reserve of acetyls for myelin synthesis in the brain. [e]
- Neurochemistry: A subfield of biology that focuses on the chemical makeup of the brain with a particular emphasis on the metabolism of neuroactive compounds like neurotransmitters. [e]
- Olfactory bulb: A structure in the vertebrate brain which is responsible for processing information from odour receptors in the nose. [e]
- Patch clamp: An electrophysiological recording technique that enables the investigation of single or multiple ion channel properties. [e]
- Phenylketonuria: A metabolic disease due to the reduction or loss of activity of the enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH). [e]
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
