Growth and development

[J Clark]

Hi,

It sounds as if we have a proposal here.

Currently we are saying that some species research groups 
define the relationship between growth and development 
differently from other species research groups.
e.g. one group may say that the growth that occurs prior to 
bacterial division is developmental growth (e.g. pombe), 
whilst other research groups say that that kind of growth is 
not developmental growth (e.g. dicty).

The way were suggesting we'll deal with this is to represent 
individual instances of growth according to the view of the 
relevant research community and that we'll clarify things by 
adding synonyms. If a term 'x growth' needs to have a 
development parent as well as a growth parent then I add an 
exact synonym 'x developmental growth'. If a term 'x growth' 
does not need a development parent then it does not get the 
synonym. It seems to me that we might also need a sensu term 
as follows:

[i]development
---[p]developmental growth
------[i]bacterial growth prior to division (sensu pombe?)
	exact_synonym: bacterial developmental growth prior 		to 
division
[i]growth
---[i]bacterial growth prior to division (sensu dicty)
---[i]developmental growth

Is this a reasonable summary of the proposal we have?

Chris: Would you be happy with the idea that one bacterial 
species may get a developmental parent for the growth it 
carries out prior to division, whilst another bacterial 
species will not? Would that addition of the synonym help 
with obol?

Thanks,

Jen

P.S. I have now added documentation to the website on the 
difference between differentiation and cell development.