User talk:Noahratliff/Animal tooth development

The study of tooth development across different species, invertebrates, and vertebrates has proven that tooth development varies greatly across different types of organisms. Organisms may vary from having little to no teeth at all to organisms that go through life with multiple layers of teeth or teeth that regenerate throughout their lifetime. Because of this, it is very important that scientists select specific species to study that may provide them with information as to how similar species' tooth development takes place. These organisms are chosen based on their specific early dental specification as well as tooth replacement ability. With an organism that has the ability to regenerate teeth, scientists have a unique opportunity to continuously study the specific odontogenic processes and mechanisms that lead to the development of teeth in different vertebrates 1. In reptilian tooth development, some scientist have chosen to determine the location and function of the SHH gene as well as the odontogenic band to help collect information on how reptiles develop teeth at a young age 1. The SHH gene gives instructions to produce a protein known as the Sonic Hedgehog protein, and this protein's function is to aid in certain required embryonic development processes. The SHH gene and proteins play major roles in not only the tooth development of organisms, but they also help in cell growth, specialization, and patterning of an organisms body 2.

When it comes to tooth development in humans, there are many differences in the way humans and other primates' teeth develop slowly over the beginning of their life. Once the dental tissue in primates and humans is formed, there are little changes made throughout the remainder of the organism's lifetime, but there are still factors such as tooth wear and dental disease can alter the dental tissue of primates 3. The dental tissue in primates is a layered structure, and scientists are able to observe the layered structure chronologically to learn about the detailed development of their teeth. This layered structure is preserved throughout life for humans and primates.

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peer reviewIsrael.tharpe (talk) 17:31, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
in the first sentence I'd suggest changing has proven to something like indicates or has indicated. this is a minor change but i think it flows better and sounds a bit more like a neutral term instead of proven. another minor thing but the second line is too long, probably need to work on the structre of this one or split it up into 2 sentences or something. I think the following few lines are great, really good content and nice explaination of how organisms for study are selected. i think the next few lines ending the paragraph with SHH is not really needed in this section and seems a bit out of place. I feel like this could be the start of a new section with examples of how these scientist look at tooth developement on the genetic level. so, overall this is a good few sentences here at the bottom but seems out of place to me and messes up the flow of the paragraph. The last section of this article seems good to me, I think that the research seems spot on and is interesting content from seemingly reliable sources. only other criticism i have is with the bibliography. I think you probably need to fix the siting on the second source you have. other then that I think this is a great start, just needs some structural changes and technical issues here and there

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Nice start, Noah. I assume you will incorporate your text into the existing page, but be sure to have active links to your sources. Pictures would be great to add as well. It would be good to break this into sections with headings so it is easier to follow. Whiteamphipod (talk) 16:34, 19 March 2021 (UTC)