User talk:Gretashum

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 * Thanks Dreamy Jazz! Appreciate the links and the feedback Gretashum (talk) 23:29, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

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Hello, Gretashum, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Elysia and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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File source problem with File:MicroscopicShell IceAge.jpg
Thank you for uploading File:MicroscopicShell IceAge.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, please add a link to the page from which it was taken, together with a brief restatement of the website's terms of use of its content. If the original copyright holder is a party unaffiliated with the website, that author should also be credited. Please add this information by editing the image description page.

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 * Thank you for pointing this out! I've added sourcing information to the summary on the file's description page. It also appears in my comment in the upload section. Gretashum (talk) 04:06, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

Condensation reaciton
This article condensation reaction is a mature article edited by experienced editors who have advanced degrees in chemistry and related topics. Your instructor has zero experience editing Wikipedia. So, we have a situation of the inexperienced leading the inexperienced. One suggestion: WP:TERTIARY is a good guide to consult.--Smokefoot (talk) 03:44, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Enzymes are catalysts
The reason that condensation reactions proceed in organisms is because they are driven by ATP hydrolysis or related exothermic processes. Enzymes guide selectivity, but like any catalyst they dont change the thermodynamics of the system. You might put your modified homework into Abiogenesis, but it would be weird and inappropriate if condensation reaction was mainly focused on the speculative prebiotic theme. You could also expand the non-prebiotic part of condensation reaction, such as discussion of the condensations involved in peptide formation, fatty acid synthesis, etc. in contemporary biochemistry. --Smokefoot (talk) 15:25, 4 December 2023 (UTC)