Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they challenge specific points made in the reading passage.

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Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they challenge specific points made in the reading passage.

The lecturer challenges each of the the possible ways agnostids may have lived that were presented in the reading by pointing out flaws in each presented explanations. She uses evidences that contradicts the assumptions made in the passage, effectively making them invalid.

First, it is pointed out in the lecture that agnostids, unlike other hunting arthopods, have relatively undeveloped eyes. Furthermore, they possess no other auxiliary sense organs to assist them in hunting. Therefore, these facts challenge the notion presented in the passage that agnostids may have been hunting animals.

After refuting the first idea in the reading, the lecturer goes on to cast doubt on the idea that agnostids were seafloor dwellers. She explains that other types of seafloor dwellers have limited mobility, which will confine seafloor dwellers in a small area. However, agnostids were found in vast areas that span over large distances, an indication that they were not seafloor dwellers.

Finally, the lecturer contends that agnostids could not have been parasites either. She points out that parasitic species generally do not have a large population because that will kill off the hosts. However, there were many agnostid fossils found, indicating the largeness of their numbers. This fact challenges the idea that agnostids were parasites.

The points made in the lecture makes the assumptions in the reading invalid. The lecturer uses facts to show that agnostids could not have been predators, seafloor dwellers, or parasites.

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Average: 8.5 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
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The lecturer challenges each of the the possible ways agnostids may have lived ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, furthermore, however, may, therefore, well

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 1.0 7.30242825607 14% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1305.0 1373.03311258 95% => OK
No of words: 237.0 270.72406181 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.50632911392 5.08290768461 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.92362132708 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6643155795 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 128.0 145.348785872 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.540084388186 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 396.0 419.366225166 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 26.5006738459 49.2860985944 54% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 93.2142857143 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.9285714286 21.698381199 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.14285714286 7.06452816374 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.142122815659 0.272083759551 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0583138726168 0.0996497079465 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0724900632044 0.0662205650399 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0962991553983 0.162205337803 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0565993452425 0.0443174109184 128% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.78 53.8541721854 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.38 12.2367328918 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.83 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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