Growth and development

[David Hill]

I think this is consistent with what we were thinking.

David

J Clark wrote:

> Hi,
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> It sounds as if we have a proposal here.
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> 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).
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> 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:
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> [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
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> Is this a reasonable summary of the proposal we have?
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> 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?
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> Thanks,
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> Jen
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> P.S. I have now added documentation to the website on the difference 
> between differentiation and cell development.
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