Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/Boston College/Developmental Biology (Spring 2013)/Course description

Developmental biology is in the midst of a far-reaching revolution that profoundly affects many related disciplines, including evolutionary biology, morphology, and genetics. The new tools and strategies of molecular biology have begun to link genetics and embryology and to reveal an incredible picture of how cells, tissues, and organisms differentiate and develop. This course describes both organismal and molecular approaches, which lead to a detailed understanding of (1) how it is that cells containing the same genetic complement can reproducibly develop into drastically different tissues and organs, and (2) the basis and role of pattern information in this process.

As a part of this course, students are assigned the task of writing articles in Wikipedia pertinent to the course contents.

Since this is an upper division course, groups of three students will work on one wikipedia entry. Each student will have a separate Wikipedia account, and each student will develop a proposal to significantly expand and edit an existing incomplete article related to developmental biology. They will be expected to expand their article to the level as close to Good Article as they can.

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