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model organisms
noun
Plural of model organism
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"Life extension in model organisms may be an artifact to some extent," they wrote.
Consider one of biology's favorite model organisms, the millimetre-long roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans.
The fly and the worm are quite similar as model organisms, and that similarity is perhaps one reason for the rivalry.
Kris Niyogi (pictured left) likes model organisms.
The genomes of the smallest model organisms had been sequenced.
What would modern biology be without its model organisms?
An experimental system may involve one or several model organisms, and most model organisms are used in several experimental system.
It has allowed molecular biologists to successfully modify human cell lines and complex model organisms, like monkeys.
Aging also shows sex differences in model organisms.
However, using animals as model organisms also bears immense caveats.
Variety is indicative of the "whole organism" being the model.[17] A further distinction can be introduced between "model organisms" and "experimental organisms" (Ankeny and Leonelli 2011) or "general model organisms" and "Krogh-principle model organisms" (Love 2010a).
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