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Arabidopsis thaliana (common Thale cress) is a small weed which has been chosen by molecular biologists as the primary model organism for studying plant molecular genetics.
The features which make the plant a suitable model organism include;
1.) Large supply of the plants available
2.) Fully sequenced genome (roughly 140 million nucleotide pairs)
3.) Production of thousands of offspring per plant after 8-10 weeks
4.) Use of mutagenic chemicals to produce mutants (easy genetic manipulation)