Endotherms are animals such as modern birds and mammals that keep their
body temperatures constant. For instance, humans are endotherms and maintain
an internal temperature of 37°C, no matter whether the environment is warm or
cold. Because dinosaurs were reptiles, and modern reptiles are not endotherms, it
was long assumed that dinosaurs were not endotherms. However, dinosaurs differ
in many ways from modern reptiles, and there is now considerable evidence that
dinosaurs were, in fact, endotherms.
The reading and the lecture both about if the dinosaurs were endothermic animals. While the author of the article argues that there are three possible reasons the dinosaurs were endotherms, the lecturer disputes the arguments made in the article. Her position is that the theories do not necessarily prove that dinosaurs were endotherms.
According to the reading, dinosaur fossils have been found in polar regions. The author of the article asserts that to live in such cold regions, dinosaurs need to maintain their body temperature above the surrounding temperature and this is a characteristic of endotherms. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. She claims that the polar regions when dinosaurs were alive, were much warmer than today. Many non-endothermic animals also lived in polar regions at the time. Additionally, she points out that dinosaurs could have also migrated or hibernated to warmer places like may reptiles do.
Secondly, the author suggests that the legs of dinosaurs were underneath their body, the way all modern endotherms have and that is the reason why dinosaurs were endotherms. The lecturer, however, asserts that having legs under their body allowed dinosaurs to support their heavy weight. Consequently, she goes on to say that since dinosaurs grew to very large sizes, having legs under their body was advantageous to them and this fact does not necessitate that dinosaurs were endotherms.
Finally, the author puts forth the idea that dinosaurs were endothermic because their bones had Haversian canals which support rapid growth. The author contends that fossilized bones of dinosaurs were found to be dense with Haversian Canals. In contrast, the lecturer’s stance is that the fossils of dinosaurs also consisted of ‘growth rings’ that allowed the bones of dinosaurs to thicken. Consequently, the growth rate of dinosaurs fluctuated with the season. In the cold season, dinosaurs grew slowly as compared to the warmer climate when they grew fast. Subsequently, she points out that endotherms grow rapidly irrespective of the season.
| Post date | Users | Rates | Link to Content |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-11-14 | TiOluwani97 | 80 | view |
| 2023-07-20 | guna | 73 | view |
| 2023-07-15 | nusybah | 85 | view |
| 2023-07-04 | Hrushikesh_Vaddoriya | 66 | view |
| 2023-06-14 | YasamanEsml | 90 | view |
- 14 Claim Knowing about the past cannot help people to make important decisions today Reason The world today is significantly more complex than it was even in the relatively recent past 50
- Life today is easier and more comfortable than it was when your grandparents were children 76
- As early as the twelfth century a d the settlements of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico in the American Southwest were notable for their great houses mas sive stone buildings that contain hundreds of rooms and often stand three or four stories high Archaeologis 73
- the best way for society to prepare young people for leadership in government or similar fields is through cooperation not competition 33
- The following appeared in a health magazine The citizens of Forsythe have adopted more healthful lifestyles Their responses to a recent survey show that in their eating habits they conform more closely to government nutritional recommendations than they d 66
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 274, Rule ID: HEAVY_WEIGHT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'heavyweight'?
Suggestion: heavyweight
...body allowed dinosaurs to support their heavy weight. Consequently, she goes on to say that ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, consequently, finally, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, while, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 10.4613686534 182% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 22.412803532 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1769.0 1373.03311258 129% => OK
No of words: 327.0 270.72406181 121% => OK
Chars per words: 5.40978593272 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25242769721 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.804239659 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 145.348785872 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.519877675841 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 536.4 419.366225166 128% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.2128689159 49.2860985944 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.2777777778 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1666666667 21.698381199 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.83333333333 7.06452816374 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.27373068433 211% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.235949426791 0.272083759551 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0809110957773 0.0996497079465 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0577374891139 0.0662205650399 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.150683629307 0.162205337803 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.027072487717 0.0443174109184 61% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.3589403974 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.8 12.2367328918 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.34 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 63.6247240618 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
---------------------
Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.