are remnants on Sinosauropteryx fossils those of feathers or not
While in the reading part the author presents some evidence, which shows that lines found on Sinosauropteryx fossils cannot be the remnants remanence of feathers, the lecturer is strongly confident that they can. . The points to elaborate on the very contradiction are presented below.
First of all, the author mentions that the fine lines maybe do not represent remains of functional structures, and they can just be parts of animal skin. Meanwhile, the lecturer highlights that these kinds of marks could have been left only by functional structures. Moreover, she points out that it is a common feature in other fossils found too.
The second evidence that the author emphasizes is the fact that scientists cannot say exactly which part of the body the lines belong to. Most probably, They can be signs of the frills of the animal. The lecturer argues on this idea mentioning that frills and feathers have a different chemical composition. Whereas, the lines do contain beta-carotene which is a special part of feathers.
The author's last argument posited by the author is the functional uselessness of feathers of this construction. The lecturer contradicts this viewpoint by pointing out that feathers could be used to allure a mate , which means they it had a display function. This is likely to be the case because the feathers were colorful, especially orange and white.
To sum up all the arguments of both pieces of the material the passage, it turns out to be obvious that as the author mentions the fine lines cannot be remnants of feathers and even presents evidence to support this point of view. In turn, the lecturer highlights some reasonable features which prove that the animal did have feathers depicted in the fossils.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 132, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'remnants'' or 'remnant's'?
Suggestion: remnants'; remnant's
...n Sinosauropteryx fossils cannot be the remnants remanence of feathers, the lecturer is ...
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Line 2, column 214, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...er is strongly confident that they can. . The points to elaborate on the very con...
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Line 4, column 308, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Whereas” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... have a different chemical composition. Whereas, the lines do contain beta-carotene whi...
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Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
... feathers could be used to allure a mate , which means they it had a display funct...
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Line 6, column 107, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...sage, it turns out to be obvious that as the author mentions the fine lines canno...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, may, moreover, second, so, whereas, while, first of all, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1462.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 289.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05882352941 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12310562562 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72743579429 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 151.0 145.348785872 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.522491349481 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 435.6 419.366225166 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.5121486994 49.2860985944 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.428571429 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6428571429 21.698381199 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5 7.06452816374 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => 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: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.146941657628 0.272083759551 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0490518253803 0.0996497079465 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0500776979574 0.0662205650399 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0859807743447 0.162205337803 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0452655854463 0.0443174109184 102% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.3589403974 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.23 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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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.