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Anaerobic Respiration

The overall wiki article on Anaerobic Respiration provided a neutral and a decent format guiding the readers from the scientific processes to its real-world importance. The article presented headings ordered by themes providing multiple aspects on the topic such as the contrast between anaerobic respiration to Fermentation and the importance in real-world economically and ecologically. The lead section presented an adequate summary of the topic stating the molecules of interest, drawing comparison to its counterpart Aerobic Respiration, and explaining where Anaerobic Respiration occurs, which was easy to understand. However, the lack of diagrams inhibited a clearer understanding of the important such as the Electron Transport Chain (ETC) and the comparison to Fermentation. Though there were links to their page, immediate visuals would improve the audiences understanding. In addition, some sentences appeared to be inconcise with extra words causing the reader to be unclear as seen in the second sentence in the opening paragraph. The section about Fermentation and Anaerobic Respiration distinctions should immediately be highlighted in the first sentence to inform the audience that they are not synonymous instead of the ending paragraph as it was unclear why they were being compared. Overall, the information presented appeared accurate and provided sufficient scientific insight to present the topic of anaerobic respiration for the general audience. References were correctly cited from reliable sources such as scientific journals and articles, however many paragraphs presented no citation which can be seen throughout the article.

Huigary (talk) 16:52, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

Assignment#2 Human Microbiota

The human microbiota is a topic of high notability due to the direct contribution it has on human health and disease through the relationship between host and microbe. This claim is supported by a simple search providing 94,000 academic articles in the UBC library. As microbes have such a crucial impact on health, there has been increasingly improved comprehension of the human microbiota among current research to understand the host and microbe relationship for biological processes and development of diseases. . This is exemplified by the Human Microbiome Project that was created to analyze and the diversity and abundance of each microbial habitat among humans . Such evidence indicates the topic's notability and coverage among the scientific community and the necessary representation it deserves on Wikipedia. However this wasn’t the case as a glimpse at the “oral cavity” section revealed a lack of coverage on that topic. This section only presented a general overview of the content, while disregarding further discussions about the oral environment and its link to oral biofilm causing disease. .

To improve this article, I will be using the findings from recent studies to provide further detail about the oral environment in order to illustrate the diversity and importance biofilm has on health. This involves further elaboration on the stages of plaque formation and where they’re found to illustrate the role of this commonly found biofilm in the oral cavity. Additionally the role of saliva would needed to be included as it plays a role for the maintenance of the microbiota. This provides a link to a discussion of oral hygiene to health and disease as it offers the audience insight of relational transition between the host and microbes. Consequently, it warrants the attention of disease prevention through the use of brushing or antibiotics. These additions to the “oral cavity” section strengthens the article by accurately improving the coverage of the topic which may have left the audience with a knowledge gap. Huigary (talk) 04:47, 28 September 2017 (UTC)