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Junk-DNA Tag proposal
Quoting @hippietrail
Would anyone like to add junk-dna and/or noncoding-dna (or should that
be non-coding-dna tags? I barely have enough rep here to breathe (-:
I would like to have a tag of ...
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Creating tags for taxonomy ranks?
Since this forum is welcoming ecologist (Do we accept the ecology community?) I suppose that a number of questions regarding the species or taxonomy rank will increase.
It is creating specialsed ...
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Book recommendation questions
I'm aware of the necessities of a book recommendation question 'in order to not be considered opinion-based, and therefore closed, book recommendation questions must provide following information:'. (...
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How should the first clause of a tag wiki be formatted?
There are a lot of tag wikis that start with some variation on "The study of / a discipline that", "Questions related to / questions about", or "[tag] refers to / deals with / is /". It seems to me ...
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How to tag questions about animals or other living things surviving being frozen for a long time? Is a new tag needed or just adjust cryonics tag?
Has the 2018 report of nematodes frozen for 30 to 40,000 years been confirmed? Has 14C dating confirmed their age? asks about a July 2018 paper in Doklady Biological Sciences Viable Nematodes from ...
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Tag synonyms- separating computational biology from bioinformatics
I wish to point out that computational biology is presently synonymous with bioinformatics, however, the scientific community considers them different. Though computational biology does include ...
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Should the glymphatic system be covered by extending the lymphatic system tag? Does it warrant a separate tag? Neither?
Wikipedia's Glymphatic system includes the following:
Glymphatic flow was initially believed to be the complete answer to the long-standing question of how the sensitive neural tissue of the CNS ...
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Create synonym between "mushroom" and "mycology
I think a user with sufficient rep on the mycology tag (or a mod) should create the synonym mushroom --> mycology (i.e. mycology as the main tag). fungi and fungus are already synonyms, but mushroom ...
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Drugs or Pharmacology
drugs and pharmacology are both in use currently and both have tag wiki summaries. Personally I think they're synonyms in the context they are being used - should we jettison one and keep the other, ...
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Asking a Microtaxonomy question
I am interested in the Species Problems that work well with Homo Sapiens as the concept is used by the Wikipedia Article
A book by Ernst Mayr says that Microtaxonomy is the study of Species and
the ...
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Tag suggestion for "gerontology" or "anti-aging"
According to Wikipedia, Gerontology is the study of the social, psychological and biological aspects of aging. It is distinguished from geriatrics, which is the branch of medicine that studies the ...
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Tag suggestion for "extraterrestrial"
See the following questions relating to this tag:
https://biology.stackexchange.com/search?q=extraterrestrial
Which are in example:
What would need to be discovered to prove there is ...
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Communication tag
I think a communication tag could be of use on this site. By "communication" I mean the way of living things to "talk" to one another by producing sounds, making gestures or posing, whatever can be ...
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Tag suggestion for "consciousness"
Consciousness according to Wikipedia:
At one time consciousness was viewed with skepticism by many
scientists, but in recent years it has become a significant topic of
research in psychology, ...
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