Blog Post 2 – Sources of Scientific Information

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I chose an article from the American Journal of Botany titled “Freeze‐induced cyanide toxicity does not maintain the cyanogenesis polymorphism in white clover (Trifolium repens)”. I sourced it from the University of Victoria’s online library database.

https://bsapubs-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/doi/abs/10.1002/ajb2.1134

The article can be classified as academic, peer-reviewed research material. It was written by four experts in the field, all of who hold PhDs and are in the Department of Biology at their respective universities. The article also includes many in text citations and a complete bibliography. On page 1230 in the acknowledgments section it is noted that the article was peer-reviewed by 2 anonymous reviewers. Finally the article can be easily determined to be research material rather than review material by the presence of both a “Methods” and “Results” section.

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