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Arabidopsis thaliana (common Thale cress) is a small weed which has been chosen as the primary [[Model organism|model organism]] for studying plant molecular genetics. | Arabidopsis thaliana (common Thale cress) is a small weed which has been chosen as the primary [[Model organism|model organism]] for studying plant molecular genetics. thaliana was chosen as a model organism due to; the large supply of the plants available, fully sequenced [[Genome|genome]] (roughly 140 million nucleotide pairs), able to produce thousands of offspring per plant after 8-10 weeks and allowing the use of mutagenic chemicals in order to produce [[Mutant|mutants]] (easy genetic manipulation).<ref name="null">Alberts B., Johnson A., Lewis J., Raff M., Roberts K. and Walter P. (2008) Molecular Biology of the cell, 5th edition, New York: Garland Science page 36</ref> | ||
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Arabidopsis thaliana (common Thale cress) is a small weed which has been chosen as the primary model organism for studying plant molecular genetics. thaliana was chosen as a model organism due to; the large supply of the plants available, fully sequenced genome (roughly 140 million nucleotide pairs), able to produce thousands of offspring per plant after 8-10 weeks and allowing the use of mutagenic chemicals in order to produce mutants (easy genetic manipulation).[1]
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- ↑ Alberts B., Johnson A., Lewis J., Raff M., Roberts K. and Walter P. (2008) Molecular Biology of the cell, 5th edition, New York: Garland Science page 36