Scientific Literature Extra Credit Assignment (30 points)
I have provided you with links of 2 published articles on research related to energy metabolism.
First Article:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0026049520302201
Second Article:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5423028/
Pick one article and answer the following questions:
1. Make a list of ten (10) abbreviations, terms, or symbols contained in the primary article that a nonspecialist would have to understand in order to fully appreciate the article (you dont need to define
each one).
2. What was the authors rationale for the study? To aid you in your answer, indicate the broad scale
topic that they felt their questions related to.
3. What question or questions are the authors seeking to address?
4. What predictions or hypotheses did the authors make with respect to their questions? If they didnt
make any predictions or hypotheses, formulate (and state below) one or more of your own hypotheses
before reading the rest of the paper.
5. What were the key results of this study? (Pay particular attention to tables and figures and where they
are referenced in the text.)
6. How would the authors (or would you) suggest following up on their study? In other words, what
experiments or studies could be done to build on their work and/or to address unanswered questions?
7. Provide a brief discussion of what was particularly interesting to you in this article, and why.
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