Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on the specific points made in the reading passage.
Both the reading passage and the lecture discuss the accuracy of a newly discovered fossil that resembles bee nests. The article presents three sources to prove that the fossil does not belong to a bee while the lecturer casts doubt on all of them. The details of the contrast between the reading and the lecture are provided below.
First of all, the author claims that as there is no other fossil belonging to a bee that dates back to 200 million years ago, we can not accept this one as a fossilized bee. The lecturer challenges this point. She says that we should consider the circumstances under which this preservation could happen. We know the trees that produce resin which is a vital substance for preserving bees, were quite rare at that time, but, it does not mean they did not exist at all.
Secondly, the author states that since the first flowers emerged about 125 million years ago, the existence of bees before the flowers is doubtful as they need to be in close association with the flowers to survive. In contrast, the lecturer refutes this claim. She thinks that the old bees could feed on nonflowering plants. Therefore their life could not be avoided.
Thirdly, the author mentions that the fossilized chambers lack some parts of modern bee nests. The lecturer, on the other hand, thinks that there is convincing chemical evidence that the fossils contain waterproofing materials used by modern bees.
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- Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on the specific points made in the reading passage. 3
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 326, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...bees could feed on nonflowering plants. Therefore their life could not be avoided. Third...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly, while, in contrast, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1185.0 1373.03311258 86% => OK
No of words: 244.0 270.72406181 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.85655737705 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.95227774224 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.41299489078 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 144.0 145.348785872 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.590163934426 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 348.3 419.366225166 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 54.0111757009 49.2860985944 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.1538461538 110.228320801 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.7692307692 21.698381199 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.92307692308 7.06452816374 126% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0772421862679 0.272083759551 28% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0311246812072 0.0996497079465 31% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.036957921988 0.0662205650399 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0439204344883 0.162205337803 27% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0280689625217 0.0443174109184 63% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 13.3589403974 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 70.13 53.8541721854 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.9 11.0289183223 72% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.91 12.2367328918 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 63.6247240618 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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