Talk:Organism
From Academic Kids
This page should probably be merged with life, or at least some of the content transferred. Also, some of the references appear only marginally relevant.
- seconded. I removed some. More should be imho. PomPom
removed below because a similar link already goes to that site
- NCBI Taxonomy resources (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/taxonomyhome.html/index.cgi?chapter=resources) (rich)
remove all comments associated with the link as they are not very relevant here. See Tree of Life. The comments have been moved in that discussion page
- The Tree of Life (http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html). Its basic goals are:
- to provide a uniform and linked framework in which to publish electronically information about the evolutionary history and characteristics of all groups of organisms
- to present a modern scientific view of the evolutionary tree that units all organisms on Earth
- to aid education about and appreciation of biological diversity
- to provide (eventually) a life-wide database and searching system about characteristics of organisms
- to provide a means to find taxon-specific information on the Internet, both taxonomic and otherwise
Moved to discussion page of Tree of Life
- Green Plant Phylogeny, Research Coordination Group, "DEEP GREEN", Understanding the Diversity of Plants (http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/bryolab/GPphylo/). A five-year effort to reconstruct the evolutionary relationships among all green plants has resulted in the most complete "tree of life" of any group of living things on the planet, including animals.
Removed for non obvious relevance
- BBC News, August 4, 1999: The mother of all plants (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/411757.stm). Scientists have discovered that every plant species alive on land today shares a single common ancestor, at least 450 million years old.
- 7 August, 2000, Fantastic fungus find (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/869808.stm) Citat: "...Researchers in the US have found what is probably the largest living organism on Earth....Scientists say it covers 890 hectares (2,200 acres) of land - an area equivalent to about 1,220 football pitches. The fungus is called Armillaria ostoyae, but is more popularly known as the honey mushroom. This particular specimen is calculated to be about 2,400 years old, although it could be two to three times this age...."
- BBCNews, 4 December, 2002, Life 'began on the ocean floor' (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2541393.stm)
