Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/MCB articles by quality/1

Changing the rating to "top" as this is high school/SAT biology topic and a central mechanism of molecular biology. - tameeria 03:40, 19 February 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

I'm not an expert on membrane potential, so please adjust the rating if B doesn't seem right. - tameeria 18:50, 18 February 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

The article seems fairly complete to me, but I'm no expert on neurology. If the B rating seems wrong, please adjust. - tameeria 19:14, 18 February 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

FrameLA 02:59, 21 March 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

This article needs references. It needs a better discussion of the amplification effect of signal transduction cascades, resulting in just small amounts of hormones being able to trigger a cellular or organismal response. It only discusses molecular stimuli, but not physical stimuli (e.g. light signal transduction in retina and plant cells). Those should be added. Receptor and effector sections need expanding (under construction). - tameeria 20:12, 18 February 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

--Jedi101 02:25, 11 December 2006 (UTC) (edit comment)

changed rating to "high" for consistency with other metabolic pathways (e.g. citric acid cycle), part of cell metabolism - tameeria 14:56, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Discovery of glycolysis and disease sections are stubs. - tameeria 20:47, 18 February 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

Jcwhizz 09:42, 11 March 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

changed rating from top to high for consistency with similar MCB pages - tameeria 15:02, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm no expert on this, so if the B rating seems wrong, please adjust. - tameeria 21:02, 18 February 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

I've asked for Peer review.David.Throop 23:42, 26 January 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

This page could use some more detail on molecular (biochemical) adhesion, including definition and differences between adhesion and cohesion. - tameeria 17:32, 18 February 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

This article needs some expert attention, e.g. "messenger DNA" section etc. - tameeria 17:55, 18 February 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

tameeria 03:18, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

What are the procedures for cloning?

~Alvin Pak (edit comment)

The article could need an expansion on diffusion in biological systems. The current diffusion across biological membranes section is just a list of bullet points. - tameeria 17:59, 18 February 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

The biology section needs expansion. The importance of electrochemical gradients in nerve cells and neurotransmission, e.g. generation of action potential, is not even mentioned. - tameeria 18:04, 18 February 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

The article has no references. - tameeria 18:07, 18 February 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

The article needs a clearer definition/distinction between meiotic recombination (chromosome crossover) and other types of naturally occuring genetic recombination, e.g. in prokaryotes or in immune cells, yeast mating type determination etc. - tameeria 18:14, 18 February 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

This article has no references. Also, chemical messenger redirects here, which is not entirely correct as chemical messengers can be different from hormones (e.g. second messengers, pheromones). - tameeria 18:23, 18 February 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

This article needs a section on biology/biochemistry, e.g. enzymatic hydrolysis, ATP hydrolysis = energy within cells etc. - tameeria 18:27, 18 February 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

The article would benefit from having pictures of the meiotic stages, e.g. prophase I stages. It needs a section on chromosome crossover and meiotic recombination. - tameeria 18:48, 18 February 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

This article could use figures and references. Also, it should include several sections: The evolutionary molecular clock and molecular clocks for circadian rhythms and other temporal cycles in cells and organisms (e.g. hormone cycles in mammals, seasonal flowering time control in plants). - tameeria 19:04, 18 February 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

The article could benefit from a figure and a section on evolutionary models in bioinformatics, e.g. evolutionary look-back horizon in sequence comparison, point accepted mutations and PAM matrix extrapolations etc. - tameeria 19:11, 18 February 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

This article has no references. Also, neurotransmission redirects here. I feel it should be a separate page describing the general mechanism of neurotransmission, whereas this one should describe the different types of neurotransmitters in more detail. - tameeria 19:20, 18 February 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

This article could use some cleanup/copyediting, references and a section on (or at least mention of) osmotic shock. The two example pictures don't work in my browser. - tameeria 19:25, 18 February 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

This article is very animal-centric. It needs a section on egg cells in plants and algae, e.g. ova production in oogonia and female gametophytes. - tameeria 19:29, 18 February 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

This article has no references. Also, the picture illustrating osmosis doesn't work in my browser. - tameeria 19:30, 18 February 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

This article could benefit from pictures. I feel that diploid and haploid are important enough to have their own pages instead of redirecting here. In either case, a better explanation of diplont and haplont organisms and ploidy in biological life cycles would be helpful. - tameeria 19:51, 18 February 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

This article needs to be rewritten in non-technical terms so that the average high school kid understands what it is talking about. It only talks about cellular secretion and needs biological context, sections on secretory organs (e.g. kidney) and differences between water- and land-dwellers etc. - tameeria 19:57, 18 February 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

This article needs references. Homo- and heterozygote is a completely different concept from mono- and dizygotic. I think the distinction needs to be made clearer, possibly by splitting the article. - tameeria 20:38, 18 February 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

This article has no references/sources. - tameeria 20:43, 18 February 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

Changed rating from top to high to make it consistent with adult stem cell and because this is also covered by stem cell and stem cell controversy. - tameeria 17:04, 18 February 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

This article misrepresents the role of the RNA world hypothesis in the evolution of life. It is not widely presented as the origin of life, but as an important intermediate between original life and current DNA+protein based life. - Zephyris _Talk 15:25, 25 February 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

This article could be expanded further with details on thylakoid proteomics studies and thylakoid protein targeting and processing. - tameeria 18:59, 5 April 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

1. Confusing use of 'strands' in the first section. No mention of RNA.
Changed TransControl 23:24, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
2. Does not list how or why it is usually used.
3. Diverges into long sections on EtBr (indeed most of the current references are on this) when there are excellent resources on the web about agarose gel electrophoresis.
Changed TransControl 23:24, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
4. Irrelevant material regarding 2D protein gels, should be elsewhere.
Changed TransControl 23:24, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
5. Resolution limits are misleading, most experiments would separate fragments 100bp 20kbp at most. PFE is a separate technique requiring different specialised equipment, should be another article.
PFE article now linked.
6. The details on the 'Preparation' and 'Procedure' are misleading, for example 'Boil solution' implies doing more than bringing it to the boil to dissolve the agarose. As most researchers who have boiled agarose by accident know, boiling for long will ruin your gel and is likely to boil over in the microwave. I think this detailed protocol is not really appropriate for an article, links to external sites with detailed protocols would suffice.
7. The gel photos are not well described or very informative.

(replaced first gel picture Dr d12 00:22, 7 March 2007 (UTC))

Yes very good TransControl 09:35, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
8. "Materials, preparation, procedure, analysis" sections read like a how-to copied directly from an introductory level lab manual. Dr d12 00:29, 7 March 2007 (UTC
Indeed, I'm not sure this detail belongs in wikipedia, 2 above is much more important. TransControl 09:35, 9 March 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)