Torreya taxifoha trees are rapidly diying in their native environments, the passage suggests three ways in which Torreya trees can be saved. However, the lecturer believes that any of the 3 options suggested by the passage would either not help in saving Torreya trees or could lead to undesirable outcomes such as putting other species at risk.
The microenvironments in which Torreya trees survived for thousands of years are being affected by the changes in surrounding climate. This is most probably because of global warming, causing damper places withing the microenvironment to become dryer and dryer. Hence, the reading passage’s suggestion of reestablishing Torreya tress at places they once used to occupy won’t help, as the microenvironment has changed.
Assisted migration can lead to unpredictable outcomes, once a species at risk called Black Lopus was moved north to help increase its numbers. However, the new environment became too favourable for Black Lopus, rapidly expanding it’s population while putting other plant species at risk. Similar thing can happer with Torreya trees if moved to more cooler places in North.
Another approach the passage suggests is to preserve the Torreya trees in research centeres in controlled environment, such an approach may work in the short run, but in the long run such trees won’t be able to withstand diseases. To tolerate diseases the trees should be in large numbers with genetically diverse population, typically a forest provides such an environment. However in research centers only few Torreya trees can be planted, which decrease their tolerances to disseases and could lead to their death in the long run.
None of the solutions provided by the reading passage can help save the dwindling population of Torreya trees. Their native environments are no longer same as they used to be, moving them to more favourable environments can lead to population explosion and trying to preserve Torreya trees in research center would make them succeptible to diseases. The lecturer casts strong doubts on all the solutions suggested by the passage.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 429, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...p, as the microenvironment has changed. Assisted migration can lead to unpredict...
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Line 5, column 264, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...nding it's population while putting other plant species at risk. Similar thi...
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Line 5, column 351, Rule ID: MOST_COMPARATIVE[2]
Message: Use only 'cooler' (without 'more') when you use the comparative.
Suggestion: cooler
...n happer with Torreya trees if moved to more cooler places in North. Another approach th...
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Line 7, column 381, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
... a forest provides such an environment. However in research centers only few Torreya tr...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, hence, however, if, may, so, while, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 5.04856512141 238% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 12.0772626932 33% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 22.412803532 54% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 30.3222958057 155% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 5.01324503311 219% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1805.0 1373.03311258 131% => OK
No of words: 334.0 270.72406181 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.40419161677 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27500489853 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91085875864 2.5805825403 113% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 145.348785872 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.553892215569 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 537.3 419.366225166 128% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.4538392781 49.2860985944 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.928571429 110.228320801 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8571428571 21.698381199 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.42857142857 7.06452816374 49% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.312717543685 0.272083759551 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.123015953192 0.0996497079465 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0786854719762 0.0662205650399 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.188053815822 0.162205337803 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0328708616944 0.0443174109184 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 13.3589403974 119% => 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: 14.34 12.2367328918 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.84 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 63.6247240618 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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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