Wikipedia talk:AP Biology 2016

2016 Ideas

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• epithelial cell - distinguish dif. type
• Centromere - diagram showing classification based on centromere position, metacentric, submetacentric, etc. Ideas
• Hormone#Interactions_with_receptors - how hormones interact with receptors and what receptors are
• Spleen - Probably two separate diagrams. One of red pulp structures to show how it filters blood. Also schematic of how white pulp to highlight how does it's job.
• TATA box - several examples of real TATA box sequences in real organisms.
• Endosymbiont and Endosymbiotic theory - Create a diagram explaining 2004 Jeon experiment - Amoeba and Bacteria-X, showing evidence of endosymbiosis see ref: http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/endosymbiosis_01
• hemoglobin and [[Chlorophyll] comparison of molecular structures https://science2be.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/the-amazing-similarity-between-blood-and-chlorophyll/
• Convergent evolution - overview image showing analogous structures
• Convergent evolution - overview image showing placental and marsupial mammal niche similarities
• Catabolism vs. Anabolism - overview visual comparison model
• Positive feedback - make an animated gif that shows how positive feedback works
• Negative feedback - make an animated gif that shows hownegative feedback works
• Temperature-dependent sex determination - a model illustrating the principle of this in a REAL species (see graph already on page)
• snRNP - what are they and what do they do
• Intron#Biological_functions_and_evolution - diagram showing what useful function introns play in organisms after being spliced out.
• Viroid - better diagram illustrating what a viroid is and its replication-infection cycle
• Diatom - a diagram of a labeled cell (these organisms are one of the most important groups of phytoplankton in the ocean)
• Camelid - make a cladogram for extant camels - use wikipedia's clade script (see the Elephantidae page for example and script template).
• Tunicate & Sea squirt - Life cycle of a this non-vertebrate chordate
• Neoteny#Neoteny_in_other_species & Axolotl - make a diagram showing the neotenic traits of this species as compared to the normal life cycle/ development seen in regular salamnders
• Holometabolism vs. Hemimetabolism side by side comparison of two type of metamorphasis in insects
• Sexual selection - a diagram showing sexual selection in a real species over time causing the runaway affect to occur
• Anoxygenic photosynthesis - summary schematic (see photosynthesis for example]])
• Chemosynthesis & chemoautotroph - summary schematic (see photosynthesis for example]])
• Lactic acid fermentation - summary schematic (see Ethanol_fermentation and fermentation for example.
• Reflex arc recreate the overview schematic in a more clear and colorful way.
• Molecular_cloning#Production_of_recombinant_proteins - overview of how recombinant proteins are created through genetic engineering
• Molecular clock - overview image showing how mutations in conserved regions accumulate slowly over time at a regular rate.
• Lamarckian inheritance - good example of how Lamarck said evolution would occur
• Glycocalyx - overview for article - slime layers of bacteria, fish, and digestive tract
• Red Queen hypothesis and Coevolution - Illustrate overview of major evolutionary concept
• Salamander#Respiration - Lungless salamander vs. Lunged Salamander vs. Gilled salamander

2017 ideas

• Horizontal gene transfer - comparison of horizontal vs. generational vertical gene transfer
• Ecological succession - of a pond/lake filling with sediment and becoming land
• Dead zone (ecology) - causes
• Viroid - better diagram illustrating what a viroid is and its replication-infection cycle
• Chemosynthesis & chemoautotroph - summary schematic (see photosynthesis for example]])
• Salamander#Respiration - Lungless salamander vs. Lunged Salamander vs. Gilled salamander
• Camelid - make a cladogram for extant camels - use wikipedia's clade script (see the Elephantidae page for example and script template).
• Molecular clock - overview image showing how mutations in conserved regions accumulate slowly over time at a regular rate.
• Anoxygenic photosynthesis - summary schematic (see photosynthesis for example]])
• mucin - structural diagram of the molecule
• mucus - functions of mucus
• Receptor (biochemistry) - an animation / .gif showing a more accurate representation of how membrane receptors receive signals and convey them into the cytoplasm to their secondary messenger
• snRNP - what are they and what do they do
• Chitin vs. cellulose - comparison of how they are structured and derived from glucose. Use a color coded the haworth projection.

2018 ideas

• Soil biology - a soil food web
• Soil mesofauna - some examples with size. And or comparison to soil megafauna, macrofauna, and microfauna.
• Leaf - remake the following messy diagram [1]
• Fish gill - blood flow and counter current exchange diagram.
• Swim bladder - flow chart modeling how swim bladders fill
• Germination - A series of photos combine into one image showing pea seed germination [2]
• Catabolite activator protein - model fully explain how the CAP/cAMP activator system works in the lac operon in relation to the presence or absence of GLUCOSE https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Activator_(genetics)
• DNA ligase - a model (or series) summarizing the catalytic functions of DNA ligase in cells