User:Plutooprojector/Homochirality/MikeSadler11 Peer Review

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General thoughts:

This looks great! I think it is generally the right amount of info to add to this wiki page. I think sometimes you use more scientific language than the typical wiki reader, but I don't think there is a very easy way around this issue for the topic. Maybe when you reference things like "circularly polarized light" you could link that to the wiki page of "circularly polarized light" though? this might help the reader to understand best. Or maybe you could add a second sentence to describe the more complicated sentence at times?

all and all I think you did a great job. If you wanted to add any extra information, as you mentioned you were thinking to, you could add some explanations in the central dogma section to explain specifically how homochirality is propegated throughout the prebiotic network, L aminoacids propegate D sugars or vice versa. I think Furkan discussed this during the lecture.

also, I know you added the references manually to the reference section, but it might be good to list them in the text too so the reader knows which citation to go to.

Homochiral Crystallization:

You could reference where dr Ron Naaman's group is located so that a reader could look them up more easily?

you could maybe add a comment about how homochiral crystals could produce homochiral polymers and lead to homochiral life?

should you mention how, in this scenario, the crystlized homochiral crystals have been precipitated out, so that the other enantiomer can be "washed away" in the context of a pond/lake with ferromagnetic deposits? so that it can build up a very high concentration of homochiral molecules?

I think you might need to explain what the CISS effect is, maybe just one sentence in basic terms? like the electrons that have positive or negative spin move through D or L more easily?

Magnetic surfaces as chiral reagents:

the first paragraph here is very dense. but I cannot think of any better way to write it. if you can think of a simpler way to write or break it down a little more it might help the reader.

"by incorporating magnetic elements in the surface structure", the surface structure of what? the crystal or the magnetic surface?

Central Dogma

are these terms "prebiotic network" and "prebiotic systems" explained well enough earlier in the wiki to be using them here?

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