Arabidopsis thaliana (common Thale cress) is a small weed which has been chosen as the primary model organism for studying plant molecular genetics. A. 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 being able to generate mutants with the use of mutagenic chemicals (simple 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

[null-1] 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

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Arabidopsis thaliana

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