User:SnowEm/Competence stimulating peptide/Xbeagley13 Peer Review

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SnowEm


 * Link to draft you're reviewing:User:SnowEm/Competence stimulating peptide
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First off, for an article from scratch to this draft, well done. I feel like it covers your topic really well. I came away with something new and I feel like I could explain this to someone else now. With that said I'm not sure if these suggestions will really make that big of a difference.

Side note. The sentence about the N-terminus being negative and the C terminus being positive is wild. I had no idea that was even possible.

Lead

I feel like the lead hits it on the head really well. DNA transformation is listed only in the lead, drawing the connection between DNA transformation and competence will tie it all together.

Content

Super solid content. Very easy to understand. It might be interesting to include what the peptides look like and what amino acids are in them.

Tone and Balance

It's very neutral. There is a sub heading of discovery and there isn't anything super specific about discovering these peptides.

Sources and References

They look great. The only thing I would double check is making sure the info is cited. It's pretty clear that there are sources and all of them are used. But the few sentences where definitions are given, may need to be citied. The information is accurate to my knowledge but they almost feel too much like a dictionary definition. Granted I haven't read the sources to double check, but as long as they meet those weird paraphrasing guidelines, they should be okay. A double check on those may not be a bad idea.

Everything else checks out! Great job and keep up the good work.