S-3b Editing Comma Splices, Fused Sentences Revise the following passage to make all the COMMA SPLICES and
FUSED SENTENCES into correctly punctuated sentences.
EXAMPLE
A human disease from almost seven hundred years ago
In
made headlines again recently in 2011, scientists reported
reconstructing the DNA of the bacterium responsible for the Black
Death of 1347-1351. By 1400, at least five additional outbreaks
had followed; about 25 million people, roughly a third of Europe's
population at the time, had died from the Black Death.
Also called the plague, the Black Death traveled from Asia to the
area around the Mediterranean Sea, then, it spread to the rest of
Europe. The symptoms of the Black Death gave the disease its name.
One form of it was marked by swellings that caused black stains from
bleeding under the skin, another form caused fever. Those who got
the first form died within five days victims of the second form died
even faster. The Black Death was so terrifying that parents and children
abandoned each other, priests refused to visit the sick to hear last
confessions. Some towns tried to keep out the disease by banning
any outsiders from entering, meanwhile, many rich people fled to the
countryside to try to escape.
To study the original bacterium, scientists extracted material from
the teeth of four victims of the Black Death, these victims, buried in a
London cemetery at some point after 1348, were exhumed in the 1980s.
The bacterium is known as Yersinia pestis a modern-day strain of it exists
in small rodents in eastern Asia.
Scientists planned to look at the differences between the old and
the new Y. pestis. Each contained millions of DNA units however fewer
than a hundred of the new units were different from the old units.
Would scientists find that one or more of the DNA differences made
the old bacterium much more deadly than today's Y. pestis would they
confirm that the poor living conditions of the fourteenth century explain
the microbe's drastic effect on Europe at that time? After all, that era
did not have antibiotics and vaccines such tools would have minimized
danger to humans from the medieval Y. pestis.

14 chromosomes

explanation:

sperm cells of the russian dwarf hamster contain 14 chromosomes. how many chromosomes are found in a normal body cell of the russian dwarf hamster? a cell with 20 chromosomes undergoes mitosis.

the answer is irony!

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in the short story the slip-over sweater by jesse stuart, the main character and narrator shan is friends with grace, an intelligent girl he has known since childhood and with whom he used to be in love.

at the beginning of the story, shan believes he’s no longer in love with grace, but loves jo-anne instead. in order to buy a slip-over sweater and have jo-anne wear it so that the other students would know she loved him too, shan takes a loan at the bank.

while jo-anne is wearing shan’s sweater, his friend grace starts to wear another popular boy’s one, roy’s sweater. because of that, the other students begin to pay attention to grace and compliment her perseverance and effort. they admire her for walking 5 miles to school every day, despite the weather, and still getting the best grades. shan, who knows all of that for a fact, says, as the narrator, ‘and i knew she had the durability and the toughness of a storm-battered mountain oak.’ he compares his friend’s strength – not only physical, but also of character – to an oak tree, whose wood is known for being sturdy.

as the story goes on, shan changes his behavior out of concern for the debt he has to pay at the bank. his new girlfriend jo-anne never asks him what is wrong nor offers any sort of . instead, she breaks up with shan for not being as fun as she thought he was supposed to be. grace, however, not only asks about shan’s problem, but him make the money he needs. shan can’t but notice how different the girls are and what a wonderful person grace is.   even though he used to find jo-anne prettier at the beginning of the story, he now says, ‘grace was as beautiful as our mountain was in april, prettier than a blossom of wild phlox or a mountain daisy.’ his comparing grace to a mountain or something that exists on a mountain (such as a mountain oak or daisy) certainly has important meaning since shan loves the mountain and everything about it and he knows the mountain thoroughly. shan also loves and knows grace as completely as he does the mountain.