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Biology I: yeast, <em>Drosophila</em> and <em>C. elegans</em>
C. elegans in Biology Research
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Caenorhabditis elegans is a microscopic roundworm that lives in soil and has become an important model organism in biology. Scientists have used it since the early 1970s because it has an invariant body plan, is easy to manipulate genetically, and is inexpensive to maintain.
This roundworm is stu...
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Les Caenorhabditis elegans, ou “vers” pour les scientifiques qui les étudient, ont révolutionné la manière dont nous approchons les études génétiques sur la façon dont les gènes régulent les activités cellulaires. La simplicité du matériel génétique du ver, son corps transparent et la facilité de sa culture font de l...
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