Growth and development

[J Clark]

Growth and Development proposal:

1) The term growth will be moved out from under development to be a sibling instead.

Current structure:

[i]development
---[i] growth

With new structure:

[i]biological process
---[i]growth
---[i]development

2) integrate new concepts:

Term:developmental growth of a unicellular organism
def: The growth of a single celled organism prior to division, where growth is 
aimed at the progression of the organism over time from one condition to another.

term: non-developmental growth of a unicellular organism
def: The growth of a single celled organism prior to division, where the growth 
does not change the organism from  one condition to another condition over time.

Term: developmental growth
def: The increase in size or mass of an entire organism, a part of an organism 
or a cell, where the increase in size or mass is aimed at the progression of the 
organism over time from one condition to another.

Term: non-developmental growth
def: The increase in size or mass of an entire organism, a part of an organism 
or a cell, where the increase in size or mass is not aimed at the progression of 
the organism over time from one condition to another.

[i]biological process ; GO:0000004
---[i]development ; GO:0007275
------[p]cell development ; GO:0048468
---------[p]developmental growth of a unicellular organism ; GO:new
------[p]developmental growth ; GO:new
---------[i]developmental growth of a unicellular organism ; GO:new
---[i]growth ; GO:0040007
------[i]non-developmental growth ; GO:new
---------[i]non-developmental growth of a unicellular organism ; GO:new
------[i]developmental growth ; GO:new
---------[i]developmental growth of a unicellular organism ; GO:new
------[i]cell growth ; GO:0016049
---------[i]developmental growth of a unicellular organism ; GO:new
---------[i]non-developmental growth of a unicellular organism ; GO:new

also

[i]cellular physiological process ; GO:0050875
---[i]cell proliferation ; GO:0008283
------[p]developmental growth of a unicellular organism ; GO:new
------[p]non-developmental growth of a unicellular organism ; GO:new


This additional parentage means that

developmental growth of a unicellular organism ; GO:new

is part_of both

cell proliferation ; GO:0008283

and

cell development ; GO:0048468

and terms are not allowed to have to part_of parents.
I don't see a way out of that right now.

Does anybody have any thoughts on that?

Thanks,

Jen