Growth and development

[David Hill]

Hi Jen,

This looks ok to me. Is there ever a case where growth would not be 
developmental in a non-unicellular organism? I can't think of one.

David

J Clark wrote:

> Hi,
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> I have rewritten the proposal clarifying the two terms of interest.
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> Does this seem like a better representation?
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> If it does then would Chris be happy with the use of a sensu 
> designation so high up in the DAG?
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> Thanks,
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> Jen
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> Proposal:
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> Currently we are saying that some species research groups that study 
> single celled organisms
> 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
>  division of the single celled organsim 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 we're 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]unicellular organism growth prior to division
>          (sensu x)
> [i]growth
> ---[i]unicellular organism growth prior to division
>       (sensu y)
> ---[i]developmental growth
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> Term: unicellular organism growth prior to division
>       (sensu x)
> exact_synonym: unicellular organism developmental growth      
>              prior to division
> def: The growth of single celled organisms, prior to division, for 
> organisms whose research community considers that that kind of growth 
> _is_ part of development.
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> Term: unicellular organism growth prior to division
>       (sensu y)
> def: The growth of single celled organisms, prior to division, for 
> organisms whose research community considers that that kind of growth 
> _is_not_ part of development.
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