Model Organism at Medical Drugs Glossary

What is Model Organism? A relatively simple organism that duplicates some critical aspect of a more complex system that would be difficult to manipulate experimentally. Examples of widely used model systems include Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Caenorhabditis elegans, Arabidopsis th

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