Five Popular Model Organisms
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...such as cancer since mice better recapitulate the complex interactions between cancer cells, therapeutic ...Scientists can make a new line of flies in only 6 weeks compared to months to make a transgenic mouse line. Over...be used to easily screen multiple therapeutic compounds in one experiment.
Zebrafish (Danio rerio)
Since...embryonic development studies as their embryos are completely transparent. Thus scientists can easily observe...model organisms, the C.elegans genome is also completely sequenced and over 60% of human genes have an...