User:Jazzmk2000/weeklyworkorganized

Getting Started on Wikipedia:
I created an account this week! And completed all the modules. Did the assignment checklist.

Evaluate Wikipedia:
Finished the training modules.

Article Evaluation: Article reviewing Lamprey Everything in the article seemed relevant to a reader who does not know anything about lamprey. I do not think any viewpoints are overrepresented. Some of the facts do not include citations, and sometimes, the citations do not work properly. Sometimes the source does not match what the fact is supposed to represent. I did not see any plagiarism when checking my specific links. On the talk page it looks as though someone took out their anger on Lampreys and wrote false information on them and someone fixed it. It's a part of the Wiki Education Foundation. the WikiProject Food and Drink (this is weird) and WikiPoject Fishes. It talks about them as a food dish which is different in class. Maybe that is overly talked about.

Add to an article.
Added to the lamprey page.

Individual Assignment:
Lamprey Distribution: Lampreys live mostly in coastal and fresh waters and are found in most temperate regions. Some species (e.g. Geotria australis, Petromyzon marinus, and Entosphenus tridentatus) travel significant distances in the open ocean, as evidenced by their lack of reproductive isolation between populations. Other species are found in land-locked lakes. Their larvae (ammocoetes) have a low tolerance for high water temperatures, which may explain why they are not distributed in the tropics.

Added: "Lampreys are found on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. In Europe they range from Northern Norway to the Mediterranean Sea. In North America the lampreys are found on the southwest coast of Greenland, and the coast of Labrador. Lampreys can also be found along the Atlantic coast to the Gulf of Mexico."

Group Sandbox:
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Laboratory Rat
We will be dissecting the laboratory rat. Our group thinks we should help re-update the page.

Add an embedded link to tail. And an embedded link to rat.

I could also talk about the scientific research done on the thermoregulation involved in the rat's tail.

Muridae
The rat is in this family of rodents. The page is very empty, and we could help contribute to it.

Rat
This is our project animals main page. I think I could add a picture of the tail here.

Rodent
In the characteristics section, add pictures of the claw-like nails, as well as functions of the claw-like nails. Add embedded link for Claw. -JK

Muridae
I could expand more on the tail by adding more about its functions. Also, take a picture of the tail from our laboratory rat and maybe do some cross-section photos. I would add this to the characteristic section on the Wikipedia page. -JK

Added embedded link for Tail in the characteristics section. -JK

Laboratory rat
I could also talk about the scientific research done on the thermoregulation involved in the rat's tail.

Option 1: Rodent
I want to edit the rodent characteristics section as my first choice. I think I could get the most out of it.

For this section want to take pictures of our lab rat's claws in the lab. There are no good photos of claws on the page or even the claw Wikipedia page. I think it could also be useful to add some of the functions of the claws because that is useful information. And then add an embedded link for Claw.

Section to Add to and Edit:
The forelimbs usually have five digits, including an opposable thumb, while the hind limbs have three to five digits. The elbow gives the forearms great flexibility. The majority of species are plantigrade, walking on both the palms and soles of their feet and have claw-like nails. The nails of burrowing species tend to be long and strong, while arboreal rodents have shorter, sharper nails.

The Edit's Done:
The fore limbs usually have five digits, including an opposable thumb, while the hind limbs have three to five digits. The elbow gives the forearms great flexibility. The majority of species are plantigrade, walking on both the palms and soles of their feet and have claw-like nails. The nails of burrowing species tend to be long and strong, while arboreal rodents have shorter, sharper nails.

[insert lab pic]

Section to Add to and Edit:
They typically have slender bodies with scaled tails longer than the body, and pointed snouts with prominent whiskers, but with wide variation in these broad traits. Some murids have elongated legs and feet to allow them to move with a hopping motion, while others have broad feet and prehensile tails to improve their climbing ability, and yet others have neither adaptation.

The Edit's Done: Changes in italics
They typically have slender bodies with scaled tails longer than the body, and pointed snouts with prominent whiskers, but with wide variation in these broad traits. Some murids have elongated legs and feet to allow them to move with a hopping motion, while others have broad feet and prehensile tails to improve their climbing ability, and yet others have neither adaptation. Tails are also used for temperature regulation, balance, and thwarting predators.

Option 3: Laboratory rat
I could also talk about the scientific research done on the thermoregulation involved in the rat's tail.

Section to Add to and Edit:
Add to the bottom of "Used in Research"

The Edit's Done: Changes in italics
Thermoregulation has also been studied by scientific research on the rat's tail. The tail plays a key role in thermoregulation, acting as a heat-loss organ, which helps the rat's body release excess heat. It was shown that when the temperature rises the blood flow goes to the tail area causing the vessels to swell.

I want to also insert pictures of the cross-section of the rat's tail.

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Week 9: Response to Peer Reviews
Through my peer responses, I think that I am going to take the feedback from CJManalo25 and talk more about the thermoregulation of the tail. I am going to take their opinion and look at the Web of Science database to find some more articles about the thermoregulation studies of rats' tails. I am also going to take the feedback from every day I'm Buffering, and take into consideration doing pros and cons of the claws. I do not think I will take their feedback for option 2 because I don't think I'm going to be looking into the characteristics of the rat's body for my edits.

I think I will focus overall on the thermoregulation of the rat's tail and small edits for the claws. I will also get pictures in the lab this week of the tail and the claws.

Image Contribution 1:
This image will go on the Rat page under the tail section Add the picture of the murid tail cross-section to Rat wiki page under the rat tail section.

Murid Tail Cross Section with Labeled Blood Vessel

Scientists have also spent time studying the thermoregulation of the rat's tail in research. Rat tails are highly vascularized allowing. It acts as a heat-loss organ, which helps the rat's body release excess heat. Studies, it showed that countercurrent heat exchange happened within the rat's tail. When the rat's body temperature rises the blood flow goes to the tail area causing the vasodilation. The warm blood from the tail is released can returns to the rats body at a lower temperature. Then vasoconstriction happens if the rats body temperature drops allowing for body heat to be conserved.

Redrafting Final draft:
Sources used were not reliable.

Scientists have also spent time studying the thermoregulation of the rat's tail in research. The rat's tail works as a variable heat exchanger. The tails blood flow is allows for thermoregulation to take place because it is under control of sympathetic vasoconstrictor nerves. Vasodilation occurs when the tail temperature increases, causing heat loss. Vasoconstriction occurs when the tail temperature decreases allowing heat to be conserved. Thermoregulation in the rat tail has been used to study metabolism.

Week 13:
Went live with rat tail photo!

Went live with thermoregulation paragraph!