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Technologies
Model Organisms
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C. elegans
They are free living in soil and is abundant in microbe-rich environments like rotting leaves and fruit
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Small, can be grown on Petri dishes with E.coli as food
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easy to genetically manipulate, direct injection of DNA
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D. melanogaster
small, easy to work in labs and have rapid life cycle (10 days)
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for almost every human organ therer is one that matches in the flies and common genes regulate their development, organisation and function
Act as disease models for cancer, Motor Neuron Disease, Alzheimer's (limitations with flies as they cannot be used to study personal loss which is a human aspect of the diseasae), Parkinson's