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Within this article, I have chosen to add more background information on Tomoko Ohta and her work. Define what genetic polymorphism is and explain more on the neural neutral theory. There will also be some editing made to better understand some of the major accomplishments that she received.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3201989/ this article defines exactly what a polymorphism is and how it works and could be used to learn more about it. A hyperlink could also be added onto the term if needed to better understand.

https://authors.library.caltech.edu/5456/1/hrst.mit.edu/hrs/evolution/public/profiles/ohta.html I will be pulling most of her background information from this site so readers can learn more about Tomoko.

I have currently been unable to find a secondary source on her neural neutral theory, but am continuing to look.

There will also be some editing done to better understand some of the more complex sentences without so many hyperlinks.

Genetic Polymorphism is not very well described within the article. Genetic polymorphism is described as the occurrence of two or more genetically determined phenotypes within a certain population. It helps widen genetic variation and also leads to diversity within a population specifically. https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/genetic+polymorphism

Neural Neutral theory of evolution states that "nucleotide substitutions inherently take place in DNA as a result of point mutations followed by random genetic drift." http://www.genetics.org/content/154/3/956

Define neutral to better understand the theory- an idea that states that something does not lean one way or another. It is something that is within the middle and does not distinctly pick a side. An example would be when we are determining pH, if it is neither basic or acidic then it is neutral.

Add a definition for neutral mutations or a hyperlink to its wiki page.

Here are some areas that I am wanting to change within the paper:

Shortly after graduating, she was hired at the Kihara Institute for biological research. She assisted Ken-Ichi Kojima, her advisor, in working on problems in stochastic population genetics. (removing the sentence that talks about the help of her advisor)

Peer Review: 

I think you have given alot of good things to add to the article! it is definitely a good idea like you state above to add more information about Tomoko personally and I think that the article you have chosen will be really helpful.