Body microbial garden

How do microflora affect us ?

Our Body’s Microbial Garden

How do our microflora affect us?

Be sure to do the following before starting your discussion:

Go  to http://commonfund.nih.gov/hmp/indexLinks to an external site. and learn about Human Microbiome Project. Go to https://www.bbc.com/news/health-18422288 and listen to the BBC radio program on Human Microbiomes.

Read these articles:

    https://carlzimmer.com/tending-the-bodys-microbial-garden-255/Links to an external site.

    https://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/some-of-my-best-friends-are-germs/Links to an external site.

Based what you have learned from the website, article, and chapter 14 (Tortora) about microflora, write a two paragraph discussion on how microflora influence our health and what can we do to sustain a healthy microflora in our body.

Read your classmates' postings, and respond to at least two of them. Do not cut and paste. Using 5 or more words from another source without quoting and referencing it is considered plaigarism and will result in a zero grade earned for the assignment. Use MLA formatting and at least two references.

Your post will be graded as follows:

Criteria

0-69 Points

70-89 Point

90-100 Points

Initial Response

No initial response is posted, it is plagiarized or the initial response is not relevant to the question assigned.

Initial response shows superficial thought and preparation; does not address all aspects of the task.

Initial response reflects the readings and outside information and is well-developed according to the assignment; fully addresses all aspects of the task.

Reply to Classmate

No reply to a classmate is posted, or the reply to a classmate is not relevant.

Reply to a classmate is a shallow contribution to the discussion (I agree or disagree, I like your comment, etc.).

Reply to classmate elaborates on the classmate's post with further comment or observation and demonstrates analysis of others' posts.

Timeliness

Initial response and reply to 3 classmates are made after the discussion ends at 11:59 p.m. on due date.

Initial response or reply to 1-2 classmates is after the specified deadlines.

Both the initial response and the replies to 2 classmates are within the specified time frames.

Understanding of References and Source Material

No mLA references, in text citations, personal experience, or mention of material from the readings is included.

Uses personal experience or makes reference to readings in MLA format with in text citations in quotation marks.

Uses MLA references with in text citations in quotation marks to readings, or personal experience, and outside source material to support comments.

Grammar

Posts are unorganized or contain rude language. There are multiple grammatical errors, incomplete sentences, incoherent sentences, or other content that may be inappropriate.

Communicates in a friendly, courteous, and helpful manner with some errors in clarity or mechanics.

Contributes valuable information in explicit, concise comments formatted in an easy-to-read style free of grammatical or spelling errors.