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Genetics
Exam 1: Commonly Used Organisms
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Biology
Undergraduate 2
01/18/2009

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Colon bacteria (E. coli)
Definition
quick generation time
small amount of genetic material
completed sequence
easy to use with bacteriophages which are bacteria viruses
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baker's yeast
Definition
easy and small but EUKARYOTIC
haploid=easy mutants to study
you can build large hollow artificial yeast cells to sequence other's dna
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fruit fly
Definition
short generation time
observable phenotyps
salvary gland chromes are huge
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Developing Worm
Definition
permitted study of organ development
see-through: could see organs developing from original cell
male and hermaphrodite sexes
discovered programmed death (apoptosis)
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arabidopsis thaliana
Definition
cabbage family
quick and small
small genome
easy to see mutant flowerw
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mouse
Definition
99% genes are the same as the human
vertabrate
mimics human disease
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zebra fish
Definition
tons of offspring AND a vertabrate
easy to block protein expression
unfertilized eggs can be manipulated to make a diploid zygote with ONLY the mom's genes (parthnogenesis)
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