Five Popular Model Organisms
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Blog Post
Published
April 11, 2019, 12:39 p.m.
...melanogaster, or as it is more commonly known: the fruit fly. The fruit fly has been used in scientific research...the fruit fly far before we even knew that DNA was genetic material (Jennings, 2011).
The fruit fly ...tools like CRISPR to make transgenic lines.
The fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster)
Another popular model...large number of offspring that are laid externally. Fruit flies are also relatively straightforward to manipulate...and Nichols, 2011).
A huge advantage of using the fruit fly is the array of genetic tools, such as the GAL4...