User:Magladem96/sandbox

Introduction
This is my sandbox. It's used for draft articles and keeping track of stuff.

Being bold is important on Wikipedia.

Class Wiki
Molecular Biology

Group 81E

Ana Sandbox

Personal Sandbox for Base Flipping Draft

Wikipedia's Five Pillars
Wikipedia has Five Pillars which are the principles by which everyone operates.

The first pillar defines what Wikipedia is, an encyclopedia. Each article should be a summary of information. It is not to be used as a textbook, a dictionary, or a place to submit original work.

The second pillar requires each article to be neutral; it should not be the authors opinion. The article should not give only one point-of-view, but discuss each point in turn. Verifiable sources must be used.

The third pillar says that all content on Wikipedia is free. No one owns anything on Wikipedia. This means that everyone can edit your work to help make it better. Plagiarism is not tolerated and copyright laws must be obeyed.

The fourth pillar discusses how users on Wikipedia should behave. Users should assume the best of everyone; no one is out to attack you and you should not be out to attack someone else. We should all assume that everyone has the same goal - to share our knowledge and make Wikipedia the best it can be.

Finally, the fifth pillar presents the rule that there are no rules. Wikipedia's policies are flexible and will evolve.

Summary of characteristics of target article
For this class project, we will create an article. It is required to be at a quality level between B and GA. We will be starting with a Stub article, which is the very beginnings of an article. Stub articles do not have much information, detail, or references. Our final article will need to have the following characteristics:
 * Contain useful information that's easy for everyone to read and understand
 * Be well-developed with verified citations
 * Be neutrally biased and cover all aspects of the topic
 * Use good grammar
 * Contain images, charts, and tables with captions if needed
 * Not be plagiarized
 * Will observe copyright laws

Short paragraph
The fountain of youth is something for which many people search. In Chapter 9 of our book, we learned about telomerase and how it's activity may influence aging. There can be many causes for aging. One article I found is titled Comparison of Mitochondrial Mutation Spectra in Ageing Human Colonic Epithelium and Disease: Absence of Evidence for Purifying Selection in Somatic Mitochondrial DNA Point Mutations. In this article, they investigated somatic mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations to find that, when comparing them to germline mutations, they did not present tendencies for selection against mtDNA mutations. Natural selection wants to preserve the germline cells so that reproduction will be successful. The disposable soma theory suggests that there is limited resources and organisms must pick and choose which cells to maintain. Thus, organisms choose to spend resources looking after germline cells to the neglect of somatic cells. This in turn may be a cause of the aging phenotype.