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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. Developing Article Charles Darwin
  2. Carolus Linnaeus -
  3. Developed Article Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  4. Developing Article Gregor Mendel
  5. Approved Article Barbara_McClintock - approved

Developing Article Anatomy

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

Stub Biochemistry

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

Stub Botany

  1. Developing Article Fungus
    1. Yeast
  2. Plant
    1. Angiosperm
      1. Eudicotyledon
        1. Arabidopsis thaliana
        2. Stub Tobacco
        3. Oak
      2. Monocotyledon
        1. Developing Article Maize
        2. Rice
        3. Developing Article Barley
    2. Bryophyte
      1. Liverwort
      2. Stub Moss
    3. Developing Article Fern
    4. Gymnosperm
  3. Plant anatomy
    1. Leaf
    2. Developing Article 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. Stub Cell division
  3. Stub Cell nucleus
  4. Cell wall
  5. Developing Article Cell membrane
  6. Cytoplasm
  7. Developing Article Cytoskeleton
  8. Flagellum
  9. Organelles
    1. Stub Chloroplast
    2. Developing Article Mitochondrion
    3. Endoplasmic reticulum
    4. Stub Golgi apparatus
    5. Vacuole
    6. Ribosome

Developmental biology

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

Developing Article Ecology

  1. Endangered species
  2. Species
  3. Developing Article Coral reef (please consider this - also in Earth Science list --Nereo Preto 07:54, 28 September 2007 (CDT))

Developing Article Evolutionary biology

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

Developing Article Genetics

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

Developed Article Microbiology

  1. Developed Article Archaea
  2. Developed Article Bacteria

Molecular biology

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

Developing Article Physiology

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

Developing Article Taxonomy

  1. Cladistics
  2. Stub Systematics
  3. Tree of life

Developing Article Virology

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

Stub Zoology

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

  1. acquired characteristics
  2. Stub actin stub
  3. Stub action potential stub
  4. Stub action spectrum
  5. active site
  6. active transport
  7. adaptive radiation
  8. Developing Article allele
  9. anaerobic respiration
  10. Developing Article antibiotic resistance
  11. Stub antibody
  12. Developing Article apoptosis
  13. Stub Asexual reproduction
  14. ATP synthase
  15. autosome
  16. biological membrane
  17. Calvin cycle
  18. Carbohydrate
  19. carbon cycle
  20. Stub carnivore
  21. Stub cell division
  22. Stub Cell nucleus
  23. Cell wall
  24. cellulose
  25. centromere
  26. chemoautotrophic
  27. chemiosmosis
  28. chiasma
  29. chlorophyll
  30. Stub Chloroplast
  31. chromatid
  32. chromatin
  33. chromosome
  34. circadian rhythm
  35. codon
  36. convergent evolution
  37. Cytoplasm
  38. cytosol
  39. diploid
  40. DNA replication
  41. double helix
  42. ecological niche
  43. Electron transport chain
  44. Stub electrophoresis
  45. Stub embryo
  46. Endoplasmic reticulum
  47. endosymbiosis
  48. enhancer
  49. enzyme kinetics
  50. evolutionary tree
  51. exon
  52. Stub Eye
  53. facilitated diffusion
  54. fat
  55. feedback inhibition
  56. Flagellum
  57. fluid mosaic model
  58. fundamental niche
  59. gamete
  60. Stub gene duplication
  61. Stub gene
  62. genetic code
  63. genetic drift
  64. genetic recombination
  65. Stub genome
  66. glycoprotein
  67. Stub Golgi apparatus
  68. gravitropism
  69. growth curve
  70. habitat (ecology)
  71. haploid
  72. herbivore
  73. heredity
  74. hermaphrodite
  75. heterochromatin
  76. heterozygote
  77. hibernation
  78. homeobox
  79. homeostasis
  80. Homology (biology)
  81. homozygote
  82. Developing Article Human Genome Project
  83. insectivores
  84. Developing Article intron
  85. invasive species
  86. Stub ion channel
  87. Lac repressor
  88. leaf
  89. Stub liver
  90. locus (genetics)
  91. Lyon hypothesis
  92. Stub Macroevolution
  93. meiosis
  94. Mendelian inheritance
  95. metaphase
  96. Michaelis-Menten kinetics
  97. Microarray
  98. Microevolution
  99. Developing Article microsatellite
  100. microtubules
  101. Developing Article Mitochondrion
  102. Stub mitosis
  103. molecular clock
  104. Developing Article monoclonal antibody
  105. monophyletic
  106. Muller's ratchet
  107. mutagen
  108. myosin
  109. Stub neuron
  110. Developed Article nitrogen cycle
  111. Non-coding RNA
  112. Stub Nucleic acid
  113. Stub nucleotide
  114. Okazaki fragment
  115. oncogene
  116. operon
  117. osmosis
  118. oxidative phosphorylation
  119. parasitism
  120. Stub Peptide
  121. Stub phagocytosis
  122. Stub phenotype
  123. phloem
  124. phospholipid bilayer
  125. phosphorylation
  126. Developing Article Photosynthesis
  127. phylogeny
  128. plasmid
  129. plasmolysis
  130. Stub Polymerase chain reaction
  131. Stub polypeptide
  132. polysaccharide
  133. Stub population
  134. predation
  135. Stub Pregnancy
  136. promoter
  137. protein synthesis
  138. Stub protein folding
  139. Developing Article protein structure
  140. proteolysis
  141. pseudopod
  142. Punnett square
  143. Quantitative trait loci
  144. receptor (biochemistry)
  145. recombination
  146. Redox
  147. Reproduction
  148. Stub Restriction enzyme
  149. Ribosome
  150. root
  151. seed
  152. senescence
  153. Sexual reproduction
  154. Stub signal transduction
  155. sister chromatid
  156. Skeleton
  157. speciation
  158. Splicing (genetics)
  159. starch
  160. stoma
  161. substrate (biology)
  162. Developing Article symbiosis
  163. telomere
  164. Stub thermocline
  165. thermoregulation
  166. Approved Article thylakoid
  167. Trait (biology)
  168. transcription (genetics)
  169. transcription factor
  170. Transformation (genetics)
  171. tropism
  172. Vacuole
  173. vesicle (biology)
  174. Visual perception
  175. Stub vitamin
  176. Wobble base pair
  177. X chromosome
  178. xylem
  179. Y chromosome
  180. 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.

  1. Acid-base physiology
  2. Adrenocorticotropic Hormone
  3. albinism
  4. Arterial system
  5. Stub Auditory system
  6. Stub Blood
  7. Bone
  8. capillary
  9. collagen
  10. diabetes
  11. Digestion
  12. Down syndrome
  13. egg (biology)
  14. Endocrine system
  15. Stub gene therapy
  16. genetic fingerprint
  17. Developing Article Heart
  18. immune system
  19. intestine
  20. karyotype
  21. Klinefelter syndrome
  22. lung
  23. Developing Article malaria
  24. muscle
  25. non disjunction
  26. organ (anatomy)
  27. Reproductive system
  28. Respiration (physiology)
  29. Stub Skin
  30. sperm
  31. testes
  32. tumor
  33. Turner syndrome
  34. Developing Article vaccine
  35. Viral diseases

Lower priority


  1. abiogenesis
  2. acetyl CoA
  3. Developing Article acid
  4. activation energy
  5. aerobic
  6. Stub Biochemistry
  7. biological emergence
  8. blastula
  9. Stub Botany
  10. Stub 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. Stub DNA sequencing
  22. Excretion
  23. FADH2
  24. gene pool
  25. Genomics
  26. Stub glucose
  27. Hershey-Chase experiment
  28. housekeeping gene
  29. hybrid
  30. knock-out mouse
  31. Stub 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. Stub Southern blot
  51. Stub Systematics
  52. taxis
  53. Developing Article Taxonomy
  54. tertiary structure
  55. twin
  56. xanthophyll
  57. Stub Zoology

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


  1. Developing Article Alfred Russel Wallace
  2. Carolus Linnaeus
  3. Ernst Haeckel
  4. Stub Francis Crick
  5. Developing Article Gregor Mendel
  6. James Watson
  7. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
  8. Konrad Lorenz
  9. Stub Louis Pasteur
  10. Lynn Margulis
  11. Max Delbrück
  12. Developing Article Thomas Hunt Morgan

Organisms


  1. Developing Article algae
  2. Stub Ant
  3. Arabidopsis thaliana
  4. archaebacteria
  5. Bryophyte
  6. DNA virus
  7. Drosophila melanogaster
  8. eubacteria
  9. fungi
  10. Stub 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.

  1. Developing Article acetylcholine
  2. Developing Article adaptation
  3. Stub Adenosine triphosphate
  4. Developing Article Alexander Fleming
  5. Developing Article amino acid
  6. Developing Article anabolism
  7. Developing Article Anatomy
  8. Developed Article animal
  9. Developed Article Antonie_van_Leeuwenhoek
  10. Developed Article bacteria
  11. Developing Article Bioinformatics
  12. Developing Article biotechnology
  13. Developing Article cancer
  14. Developing Article catabolism
  15. Developing Article cell (biology)
  16. Developing Article Cellular respiration
  17. Developing Article Charles Darwin
  18. Developing Article circulatory system
  19. Developing Article citric acid cycle
  20. Developing Article cloning
  21. Developing Article cytoskeleton
  22. Developing Article dihybrid cross
  23. Approved Article DNA
  24. Stub Escherichia coli
  25. Developing Article Ecology
  26. Developing Article endosymbiotic theory
  27. Developing Article enzyme
  28. Stub epigenetics
  29. Stub eukaryote
  30. Developing Article Evolution
  31. Developing Article fermentation (biochemistry)
  32. Developing Article flower
  33. Developing Article Genetics
  34. Developing Article genotype
  35. Developing Article glycogen
  36. Developing Article histone
  37. Stub hormone
  38. Developing Article insect
  39. Developed Article insulin
  40. Developing Article kidney
  41. Approved Article life
  42. Developed Article Lipid
  43. macromolecule
  44. Developed Article marine biology
  45. Developed Article microbiology
  46. Stub microfilament
  47. Developing Article mutation
  48. Developing Article natural selection
  49. Stub nervous system
  50. Developing Article neurotransmitter
  51. Stub organelle
  52. Developed Article organism
  53. Developing Article Physiology
  54. plasma membrane
  55. Developed Article pollination
  56. Developing Article prion
  57. Stub prokaryote
  58. Developing Article Protein
  59. Stub protist
  60. Developing Article RNA
  61. species
  62. Developing Article stem cell
  63. Developing Article synapse
  64. Developed Article systems biology
  65. Developed Article transposon
  66. Developing Article Vasopressin
  67. virus
  68. Stub wood
  69. 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.

Major topics from wikipedia biology portal

General Life | species | biology
Ecology Biomass | food chain | indicator species | extinction | habitat | species distribution | Gaia theory
Conservation Biodiversity | biodiversity hotspot | nature reserve | edge effect | Allee effect | corridor | fragmentation | pollution | invasive species | in situ - ex situ | seedbank | environmental economics
Evolution Natural selection | genetic drift | sexual selection | speciation | mutation | gene flow
Tree of life Animals | plants | fungi | protists | bacteria | archaea | prokaryote | eukaryote | three-domain system | angiosperms | insects | nematodes | viruses
Development Tissues | fertilization | embryogenesis | gastrulation | neurulation | organogenesis | differentiation | morphogenesis | metamorphosis | ontogeny
Life cycle reproduction | ploidy | spermatogenesis | alternation of generations | oogenesis | parasitism | evolution of sex | meiosis | DNA replication
The cell Cell wall | cell membrane | cytoskeleton | mitochondrion | chloroplast | nucleus | endoplasmic reticulum | Golgi apparatus | cell cycle | mitosis | metabolism | cell signaling | protein targeting
Biochemistry DNA | RNA | protein | enzyme | protein folding | carbohydrate | lipid | glycolysis | citric acid cycle | electron transport chain | oxidative phosphorylation | photosynthesis | protein structure
Genetics Gene | genome | karyotype | transcription | translation | recombination | chromosome | Mendelian inheritance | phenotype | genotype | epigenetics | splicing | mutation | genetic fingerprint | chromatin | classical genetics | ecological genetics | molecular genetics | population genetics | quantitative genetics
Techniques Genetic engineering | transformation | gel electrophoresis | chromatography | centrifugation | cell culture | DNA sequencing | DNA microarray | green flourescent protein | vector | Enzyme assay | Protein purification | Western blot | Northern blot | Southern blot | restriction enzyme | polymerase chain reaction | two-hybrid screening
Other fields Anatomy | astrobiology | botany | bioengineering | bioinformatics | human biology | microbiology | origin of life | paleontology | parasitology | pathology | pharmacology | phylogenetics | physiology | marine biology | systems biology | taxonomy | zoology
Classification of man Primate | mammal | vertebrate | craniata | chordate | deuterostome | animal
History of biology Natural history | geography | ecology | molecular biology | evolutionary biology | Great Chain of Being