Emily Baker
Professor Zukowski
English 121
8 Mar. 2016
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Evaluating
and Reviewing a Website
Initial
Thoughts:
The
website, IFL Science appears to be a factual science website that is set up
like a blog. Different author contribute by providing a wide variety of posts
about science related information. Articles range anywhere from biology and chemistry
all the way to technology and space. Because it is set up like a blog, there
are various ads, including ads that direct you off the website and onto other
blog type websites. However, the information on this particular website appears
to be very credible. In each post there are various links within the text
directing the reader to the original source of information. Each article is
very factual based and unbiased. The goal of the website seems to want to
provide readers a quick way to gain new science knowledge without having to go
read an entire scholarly article.
Excerpt
from an article:
The green sea slug is unique in its biological structure
because although defined as an animal it possesses the ability to photosynthesize.
According to an article on Science, “The sea slugs embed the chloroplasts
into their own digestive cells, where the organelles continue to
photosynthesize for up to nine months—that’s even longer than they would
perform in algae. The sea slugs stay nourished thanks to the carbohydrates
and lipids produced with photosynthesis (Fang).” This form of digestion is
considered to be a unique from of gene transfer that still seems to puzzle biologists.
By carefully studying the green sea slug’s uptake of the photosynthesizing DNA,
scientists can understand the molecular evolution of multi-cellular organisms.
Works
Cited
Fang,
Janet. “Sea Slug Steals Photosynthesis Gene from Algae” IFL Science. IFL Science, 4 Feb. 2015. Web. 3 Mar. 2016
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