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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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Caenorhabditis elegans, of "wormen" voor de wetenschappers die ze bestuderen, hebben de manier waarop we genetische studies benaderen om te begrijpen hoe genen cellulaire activiteiten reguleren, gerevolutioneerd. De eenvoudige genetica, het transparante lichaam en het gemak van kweek maken deze wormen een i...
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