In the lecture, the professor admitted that genetically modified trees have some advantages, but she also discussed why they can actually cause problems.
First of all, whilst the passage claims that genetically modified trees are hardier than natural populations because they are specifically designed, the professor in the lecture argued that genetically modified trees can actually be more vulnerable. Since natural trees are more genetically diverse, different individuals growing in one place will be able to withstanding different challenges in the environment, like climate change and new pests, thus guarantee the survival of the species as a whole. Genetically modified trees, on the other hand, lack this genetic diversity and are more uniform in their genes, making them more likely to die out.
Secondly, the professor explained why genetically modified trees can be more costing than natural ones. While genetically modified trees can give greater yields, as the reading passage claims, the professor reminded in the lecture that, according to law, farmers need to buy seeds of genetically modified tree every year, adding that these seeds are typically much more expensive than their modified counterparts. And it is this policy that cause additional costs to farmers.
Last but not least, genetically modified trees cannot prevent damages to wild trees. It is obvious the cultivation of genetically modified trees can lead to less exploitation of wild trees, but as pointed out in the lecture, it is genetically modified trees themselves that cause the problems. Particularly designed for adaptation in one specific environment, genetically modified trees have few problems outcompete the natural ones, and eventually wipe them out because they grow much better and faster than natural populations. So instead of protecting wild trees, genetically modified trees are bringing damages to them.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 86, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
...s cannot prevent damages to wild trees. it is obvious the cultivation of genetical...
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Line 7, column 392, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun problem seems to be countable; consider using: 'few problems'.
Suggestion: few problems
...ronment, genetically modified trees has few problem outcompete the natural ones, and eventu...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, if, second, secondly, so, thus, while, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1618.0 1373.03311258 118% => OK
No of words: 289.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.59861591696 5.08290768461 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12310562562 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86205817882 2.5805825403 111% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.525951557093 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 513.0 419.366225166 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.55342163355 116% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => OK
Sentence length SD: 78.0408877787 49.2860985944 158% => OK
Chars per sentence: 147.090909091 110.228320801 133% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.2727272727 21.698381199 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.90909090909 7.06452816374 126% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.562107310998 0.272083759551 207% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.26527105024 0.0996497079465 266% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.100372493745 0.0662205650399 152% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.368473735737 0.162205337803 227% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.10801569955 0.0443174109184 244% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.1 13.3589403974 135% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 28.17 53.8541721854 52% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 11.0289183223 143% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.5 12.2367328918 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.64 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 10.7273730684 144% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.2008830022 143% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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