Is smoking in the first trimester of pregnancy the cause of premature birth or birth defects

You are to write a 5 page APA paper (a title page and a reference page and 3 pages of body), double-spaced 12 font-size on any topic you desire that is related to some aspect of biology. The topic submission should be in the form of a question that you will answer in the paper. Each paper should include Introduction, Discussion, and Conclusion.I have three objectives in given this assignment. The first objective is to allow you an opportunity to explore in greater depth a question in biology of direct interest to you. The second objective is to help you understand better how to gather information on a topic from various sources, including the Wilmington University library system. The final objective is to improve your writing skills.I would suggest the following process for developing and writing this paper. First, choose a topic of interest to you and one that can be covered in some detail within the page limit of this paper. You should pose this topic as a question. Second, conduct internet and library research on your topic developing a collection of several articles and papers directly related to answering the question posed by your topic. Third, list all the topics and information you want to present in your paper and divide the information under certain subtopics that lead to paragraphs of your paper. This should result in a paper outline. Once you have an outline, you are ready to write a rough draft of your paper. Set the rough draft aside for several days and then return to it and edit it for grammar, spelling, content, and length. Use the edited rough draft to create your final paper.References -The purpose of a list of references is to allow the reader to find out where you obtained your information so the reader can refer to the original document if desired. You need at least 5 separate references for your paper. References fall into different categories: peer-reviewed journals, popular journals, gray literature, and books. You will find the most accurate and technical-scientific information in peer-reviewed journals, such as the Journal of Ecology, Science, Nature, etc. Your paper should have at least one reference from a paper in a peer-reviewed journal. The author or authors who wrote the scientific paper sent it to the journal to be published. The journal then sends the paper out to other scientists familiar with the technical material in the paper to review. Only if the other scientists say the research is well done will the journal publish the paper, which is why they are called “peer-reviewed.” Such a paper will tell you how the information it reports was collected and analyzed besides giving the conclusions from the research. Each year millions of scientific papers are published in peer-reviewed journals. The best way to access papers in peer-reviewed journals is to go to the Wilmington University library webpage. Wilmington University pays for internet access to hundreds of peer-reviewed journals. Within the text of your paper, you need to reference the source of all the information provided that is not original to you. You then attach to the end of your paper a “References” section that lists all of the references you used. Do not list a source in the references cited section that you did not reference in your paper.