[b]Kristen Solt's Sandbox [/b]
Insert Photo for Eukaryotic Protein-Coding Gene
editI suggested that a photo of a eukaryotic protein-coding gene undergoing transcription, splicing, and translation should be added to the mutation page. I feel it's important to insert this, so readers can see when mutations could potentially happen in the ORF. We drew something like this is class as well. I'm having trouble finding a super reliable source. I've found two pages that reference to this image on google scholar; however, none of them are primary literature.
Solt.kristen (talk) 12:56, 20 March 2017 (UTC)Kristen Solt KBS14C
format of citations
edit"Another example of this is during the [industrial revolution]. During this massive increase in factories and other facilities, there was an influx in air pollution within many different environments. This influx caused a massive change in many ecosystems. The peppered-moth, shown here 1, had a body color of white, which aided it in blending well within its environment to avoid predators. Unfortunately because of the influx of air pollution, the trees it would hide in started turning darker and darker because of the black smock coming from the factories. A mutant species spawned of the peppered-moth, bearing a black-skin phenotype that allowed the new moths to hide in the darker environment better than the white moths could. This allowed for a higher survival rate of the black-skin moths, and a dwindling of the white-skin moths.[8][5][6][7][4][8][5]
I felt that this paragraph was necessary, however the citations were a bit of a mess. I would recommend spacing out the citations to where the material belongs, instead of there being a tail of stations at the end of the paragraph. For example, If one of the citations is saying that the body color aids for avoiding predators, there should be a citation behind that. If I'm seeing this wrong and al of those citations are saying the same thing (as in 5 sources supporting that paragraph), then I think the best one or two should be decided of these citations.
see also
editAlso should add evolution link to "see also" tab