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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 managemnet: 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

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. acetyl CoA
  2. acquired characteristics
  3. Stub actin stub
  4. Stub action potential stub
  5. Stub action spectrum
  6. active site
  7. active transport
  8. adaptive radiation
  9. Developing Article algae
  10. Developing Article allele
  11. anaerobic respiration
  12. Stub Ant
  13. Developing Article antibiotic resistance
  14. Stub antibody
  15. Developing Article apoptosis
  16. Arabidopsis thaliana
  17. archaebacteria
  18. Stub Asexual reproduction
  19. ATP synthase
  20. autosome
  21. biological emergence
  22. biological membrane
  23. blastula
  24. Bryophyte
  25. Calvin cycle
  26. Carbohydrate
  27. carbon cycle
  28. Stub carnivore
  29. Stub cell division
  30. Stub Cell nucleus
  31. Cell wall
  32. cellulose
  33. centromere
  34. chemoautotrophic
  35. chemiosmosis
  36. chiasma
  37. chitin
  38. chlorophyll
  39. Stub Chloroplast
  40. chromatid
  41. chromatin
  42. chromosome
  43. circadian rhythm
  44. codon
  45. conformation
  46. convergent evolution
  47. Cytoplasm
  48. cytosol
  49. diffusion
  50. diploid
  51. DNA replication
  52. DNA virus
  53. double helix
  54. Drosophila melanogaster
  55. ecological niche
  56. Electron transport chain
  57. Stub electrophoresis
  58. Stub embryo
  59. Endoplasmic reticulum
  60. endosymbiosis
  61. enhancer
  62. enzyme kinetics
  63. eubacteria
  64. evolutionary tree
  65. exon
  66. Stub Eye
  67. facilitated diffusion
  68. FADH2
  69. fat
  70. feedback inhibition
  71. Flagellum
  72. fluid mosaic model
  73. fundamental niche
  74. fungi
  75. gamete
  76. Stub gene duplication
  77. gene pool
  78. Stub gene
  79. genetic code
  80. genetic drift
  81. genetic recombination
  82. Stub genome
  83. Stub glucose
  84. glycoprotein
  85. Stub Golgi apparatus
  86. gravitropism
  87. growth curve
  88. habitat (ecology)
  89. haploid
  90. herbivore
  91. heredity
  92. hermaphrodite
  93. heterochromatin
  94. heterozygote
  95. hibernation
  96. homeobox
  97. homeostasis
  98. Homology (biology)
  99. homozygote
  100. Developing Article Human Genome Project
  101. Stub human
  102. abiogenesis
  103. activation energy
  104. insectivores
  105. intestine
  106. Developing Article intron
  107. invasive species
  108. Stub ion channel
  109. Lac repressor
  110. leaf
  111. Stub liver
  112. locus (genetics)
  113. Lyon hypothesis
  114. Stub Macroevolution
  115. mass spectrometry
  116. meiosis
  117. Mendelian inheritance
  118. metaphase
  119. Michaelis-Menten kinetics
  120. Microarray
  121. Microevolution
  122. Developing Article microsatellite
  123. microtubules
  124. Developing Article Mitochondrion
  125. Stub mitosis
  126. molecular clock
  127. Developing Article monoclonal antibody
  128. monophyletic
  129. Muller's ratchet
  130. mutagen
  131. myosin
  132. Stub neuron
  133. neurospora crassa
  134. Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide
  135. Developed Article nitrogen cycle
  136. Non-coding RNA
  137. non-competitive inhibition
  138. Stub Nucleic acid
  139. Stub nucleotide
  140. Okazaki fragment
  141. oncogene
  142. operon
  143. osmosis
  144. oxidative phosphorylation
  145. parasitism
  146. Stub Peptide
  147. Stub phagocytosis
  148. Stub phenotype
  149. phloem
  150. phospholipid bilayer
  151. phosphorylation
  152. Developing Article Photosynthesis
  153. phylogeny
  154. plant
  155. plasmid
  156. plasmolysis
  157. Stub Polymerase chain reaction
  158. Stub polypeptide
  159. polysaccharide
  160. Stub population
  161. predation
  162. Stub Pregnancy
  163. promoter
  164. protein biosynthesis
  165. Stub protein folding
  166. Developing Article protein structure
  167. proteolysis
  168. pseudopod
  169. punctuated equilibrium
  170. Punnett square
  171. Quantitative trait loci
  172. receptor (biochemistry)
  173. recombination
  174. Redox
  175. Reproduction
  176. Stub Restriction enzyme
  177. retrovirus
  178. Ribosome
  179. RNA virus
  180. root
  181. seed
  182. senescence
  183. sequencing
  184. Sexual reproduction
  185. Stub signal transduction
  186. sister chromatid
  187. Skeleton
  188. speciation
  189. Splicing (genetics)
  190. starch
  191. stoma
  192. substrate (biochemistry)
  193. Developing Article symbiosis
  194. telomere
  195. testes
  196. Stub thermocline
  197. thermoregulation
  198. Approved Article thylakoid
  199. Trait (biological)
  200. transcription (genetics)
  201. transcription factor
  202. Transformation (genetics)
  203. tropism
  204. Vacuole
  205. vesicle (biology)
  206. Visual perception
  207. Stub vitamin
  208. Wobble base pair
  209. X chromosome
  210. xylem
  211. Y chromosome
  212. 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. karyotype
  20. Klinefelter syndrome
  21. lung
  22. Developing Article malaria
  23. muscle
  24. non disjunction
  25. organ (anatomy)
  26. Reproductive system
  27. Respiration (physiology)
  28. Stub Skin
  29. sperm
  30. tumor
  31. Turner syndrome
  32. Developing Article vaccine
  33. Viral diseases

Lower priority


  1. Developing Article acid
  2. aerobic
  3. Stub Biochemistry
  4. Stub Botany
  5. Stub carotenoid
  6. Cell biology
  7. Cellular differentiation
  8. Chi square test
  9. Cladistics
  10. Classical genetics
  11. Developmental biology
  12. dimer
  13. Excretion
  14. Genomics
  15. Hershey-Chase experiment
  16. housekeeping gene
  17. hybrid
  18. knock-out mouse
  19. Stub mass extinction
  20. Molecular biology
  21. nucleosome
  22. peroxisome
  23. phospholipid
  24. pigment
  25. Plant physiology
  26. Plant tissues
  27. plastid
  28. primary structure
  29. proteomics
  30. purine
  31. pyrimidine
  32. quaternary structure
  33. secondary structure
  34. Stub Southern blot
  35. Stub Systematics
  36. taxis
  37. Developing Article Taxonomy
  38. tertiary structure
  39. twin
  40. xanthophyll
  41. 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

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