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Arabidopsis thaliana (common Thale cress) is a small weed which has been chosen | Arabidopsis thaliana (common Thale cress) is a small weed which has been chosen as the primary model organism for studying plant molecular genetics. | ||
The features which make the plant a suitable model organism include; | The features which make the plant a suitable model organism include; | ||
#Large supply of the plants available | |||
#Fully sequenced genome (roughly 140 million nucleotide pairs) | |||
#Production of thousands of offspring per plant after 8-10 weeks | |||
#Use of mutagenic chemicals to produce mutants (easy genetic manipulation) | |||
Revision as of 21:18, 30 November 2011
Arabidopsis thaliana (common Thale cress) is a small weed which has been chosen as the primary model organism for studying plant molecular genetics.
The features which make the plant a suitable model organism include;
- Large supply of the plants available
- Fully sequenced genome (roughly 140 million nucleotide pairs)
- Production of thousands of offspring per plant after 8-10 weeks
- Use of mutagenic chemicals to produce mutants (easy genetic manipulation)