Plagiarism exercise: Johal paragraph

Suppose a biology student reads the following from a published paper while preparing an essay:

A class of maize mutants, collectively known as disease lesion mimics, display discrete disease-like symptoms in the absence of pathogens. It is intriguing that a majority of these lesion mimics behave as dominant gain-of-function mutations. The production of lesions is strongly influenced by light, temperature, developmental state and genetic background. Presently, the biological significance of this lesion mimicry is not clear, although suggestions have been made that they may represent defects in the plants’ recognition of, or response to, pathogens. ... In this paper we argue that this might be the case ...
- G.S. Johal, S.H. Hulbert, and S.P. Briggs. 1995. “Disease lesion mimics of maize: a model for cell death in plants.” BioEssays 17:685-692.

Which of the following passages, if included in the essay the student hands in, would constitute plagiarism?

Click here for the first passage.

You will be re-directed to the website of Gary Varner, Texas A&M University.

Note: Charlotte Bronson created this exercise and wrote the following passages for discussion purposes. Her comments on the passages are quoted on the following pages. For a handout containing the above quotation and the following passages, click here and, for the key, here.

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Plagiarism exercise: Johal paragraph

You will be re-directed to the website of Gary Varner, Texas A&M University.

Note: Charlotte Bronson created this exercise and wrote the following passages for discussion purposes. Her comments on the passages are quoted on the following pages. For a handout containing the above quotation and the following passages, click here and, for the key, here.

Reproduced with permission of the author. Exercise first appeared at: www.biotech.iastate.edu/Bioethics/Bioethics_in_Brief/November99/nov_99.htm