The reading passage talks about the endangered Torreya taxifolia trees and their reluctant walk towards extinction. It provides us with three techniques which if properly executed can result in the resurgence of the species. However, the lecturer refuses these claims by providing her own perspective on the changes suggested in the passage.
To begin with, the lecturer disapproves of the idea of re-establishing the Torreya in its native location. She suggests that the micro-climate which hearths the Torreya is experiencing climate change. Due to global warming and the wetlands getting desiccated the micro-climate will not be able to maintain its cold and wet climate on which the tree exists. The drier lands would not be able to sustain the trees and will not be of much use to them.
According to the professor the idea of relocating the species to a more suitable habitat for its revival will also fail. She provides another example of this "human" assisted migration and how it backfired. The Black Locus trees which were facing similar endangerment issues where migrated further north so they can be revived. Although this act lead to the revival of the black locus, the spread of the locus was deadly for other plants and trees native to that habitat which were also on the verge of extinction. The relocation of the Torreya can also provide with the same results and therefore is too risky because of the collateral damage it brings along with itself
And lastly, the speaker debates against the idea of migrating the trees from the wild to the research centers. According to her such trees will not be able to fight off diseases. Normally, to fend off any disease and to grow resistance against it the species needs a large population and diverse genes. That cannot be sustained inside a laboratory and an outbreak of disease will lead to the extinction of the whole species. Thus, this technique cannot be used to revive Torreya trees.
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- Young people enjoy life more than older people do.Do you agree or disagree? 60
- In the 1950s Torreya taxifoha, a type of evergreen tree once very common in the state of Florida, started to die out. No one is sure exactly what caused the decline, but chances are good that if nothing is done, Torreya will soon become extinct. Experts a 3
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- Professors are normally found in university classrooms, offices, and libraries doing research and lecturing to their students. More and more, however, they also appear as guests on television news programs, giving expert commentary on the latest events in 73
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 160, Rule ID: IF_IS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'is'?
Suggestion: is
...provides us with three techniques which if properly executed can result in the res...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, lastly, so, therefore, thus, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 30.3222958057 158% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1643.0 1373.03311258 120% => OK
No of words: 328.0 270.72406181 121% => OK
Chars per words: 5.00914634146 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25567506705 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70317848638 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 145.348785872 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.545731707317 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 506.7 419.366225166 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.1103873919 49.2860985944 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.6875 110.228320801 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.8125 7.06452816374 54% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.27373068433 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.260344340186 0.272083759551 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0840711022713 0.0996497079465 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0523195618307 0.0662205650399 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.150979160083 0.162205337803 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0405504053208 0.0443174109184 91% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.58 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 63.6247240618 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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