September 15, 2005 (Vol. 25, No. 16) Range of Offerings Are Available Nature uses a common framework when building organisms as different as yeast, worms, fruit flies, mice, and humans. This makes ...

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Because Arabidopsis is a widely studied model organism, its sequence will enable scientists to study genes that control basic plant functions. This knowledge will be useful for improving important ...

Genetic similarity and common ancestry are key principles behind model organism research. All living things are related, from unicellular bacteria to complex multicellular plants and animals.This ...

Scientists have used plant cells as a model to reveal more about how development is regulated. They created movies of the growing roots of Arabidopsis plants, in which fluorescent markers illuminate ...