Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they challenge the specific theories presented in the reading passages.
The reading and the lecture both discuss the theories of how agnostids, a kind of extincted marine animals, lived and behaved in the past. While the reading proposes three different theories, the professor casts doubts on the statements by claiming that they are untenable.
First of all, in contrast to the argument which states that the agnostids could be free-swimming predators that ate other smaller organisms, the professor asserts that free-swimming predators usually have large and well-developed eyes that can be used to track preys. She supports this point with the fact that the agnostids' eyes were tiny sometimes even blind, so they were less likely to be predators. Moreover, there is no strong evidence to support that the agnostids had other sensory systems to detect the smaller animals.
Furthermore, another theory introduced in the reading is that the agnostids were seafloor dwellers which are scavengers feeding on dead organisms or bacteria. The lecture, however, proposes a contradicting idea that seafloor dwellers do not move fast and far. Instead, they are localized at small geographic areas without moving to new areas. But the agnostids were found in multiple areas that are far enough, which suggests that the agnostids were able to move fast and travel long distance.
Finally, the professor claims that parasites are normally less in population due to the limitation of resources which challenges the standpoint made by the author who believes that the agnostids might be parasites. In addition, the professor points out that if the population of the parasites were large, as a result, they would kill their hosts. However, the large population of the agnostids rules out the possibility of being parasites.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, moreover, so, well, while, in addition, in contrast, kind of, as a result, first of all, in contrast to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1472.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 277.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31407942238 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07962216107 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76432477886 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.574007220217 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 444.6 419.366225166 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.6069971543 49.2860985944 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.666666667 110.228320801 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0833333333 21.698381199 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.5 7.06452816374 177% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.163026994102 0.272083759551 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0581167577812 0.0996497079465 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0346251388691 0.0662205650399 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0967277214733 0.162205337803 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0306835040449 0.0443174109184 69% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 13.3589403974 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.2367328918 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.94 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 63.6247240618 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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